SPECIAL APPEAL No. 275 of 2019 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 275 of 2019 Ram Baran Saroj And Another .....Appellant(s) Versus The State Of U.P.Throu.Prin.Secy.Geology And Mining Lko.And Ors. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Pt. S. Chandra Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Ashok Kumar Bajpai, Dipak Seth, Shyam Bahadur, Soorya Narayan Pandey Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. Heard Shri Pt. S. Chandra, learned counsel for the appellants and Shri Sanjiv Singh, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents. 2. By means of this appeal, a challenge has been raised to the judgment and order dated 04.07.2017 passed in Writ Petition No.14121 (S/S) of 2017, by which the writ petition of the appellants-petitioners has been dismissed on the ground that a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is not the appropriate remedy for the grievances raised. 3. The contention of the appellants' counsel initially was that, in similar circumstances, a Co-ordinate Single Judge Bench has disposed of the writ petitions with a direction to absorb the persons similarly situated as the appellants, but in the case of the appellants