Umapati Chaturvedi and Another v. State of U.P. and 6 Others

Court No. - 52 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 36296 of 2023 Petitioner :- Umapati Chaturvedi And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Arun Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.

¶1Heard Sri Arun Kumar, learned counsel for petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents no.1 to 3.

¶2Present writ petition has been filed seeking a direction in the nature of mandamus to be issued in favour of the respondent no.2 to decide Appeal No.C202205000001805 of 2022 (Umapati and another Vs. Raghunath and others), under Section 38(4) of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, expeditiously.

¶3Learned counsel for petitioner submits that grievance of petitioner would sufficiently be met in case, the aforesaid matter is considered and decided in a time bound manner.

¶4Learned Standing Counsel submits that no useful purpose would be served in keeping the writ petition pending and an appropriate direction may be issued to respondent no.2 to consider the grievance of the petitioner.

¶5Be that as it may, without entering into the merits of the case as well as if there is no other legal impediment available, the respondent no.2 is hereby directed to consider and decide the Appeal No.C202205000001805 of 2022 (Umapati and another Vs. Raghunath and others), under Section 38(4) of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of nine months from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him after affording proper opportunity of hearing to all the concerned parties.

¶6With the aforesaid directions, the writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 30.10.2023 Vivek Kr. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad