1. All three captioned writ petitions are related to surcharge imposed against three different persons (petitioners in the aforesaid writ petitions) under Section 68 (2) of the U.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1965 (in brevity, “Act 1965”). Surcharge order dated 20.02.2019 and the appellate court order dated 28.12.2023 are common in all three writ petitions. Thus, the aforesaid writ petitions are being decided by a common order of the date wherein Writ-C No. 13633 of 2024 (Radharaman Gupta Vs. State of U.P. and 4 Others) is the leading file.
2. Heard Sri Mohan Yadav and Sri Ashwani Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Vinayak Varma, learned counsel for the respondent no.5, as well as learned Standing Counsel for the respondent nos. 1, 2 and 3. None has appeared for the respondent no.4.