Harishankar Awasthi v. The State of U.P. and 4 Others

Chief Justice's Court Case :- WRIT - C No. - 37634 of 2023 Petitioner :- Harishankar Awasthi Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anil Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Sant Ram Sharma Hon'ble Pritinker Diwaker,Chief Justice Hon'ble Ashutosh Srivastava,J. Shri Anil Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner prays for withdrawal of the writ petition with liberty to avail remedy of filing an Appeal before the Authority concerned. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that as he was prosecuting this case before this Court the Appeal would be time barred and therefore, the Appellate Authority be directed to decide the appeal on its own merits ignoring the point of limitation. Submission appears to be fair. In the eventuality of filing Appeal, before the Appellate Authority, within a period of two weeks, from today, the Appellate Authority is directed to decide the same on its own merits, ignoring the point of limitation. With the aforesaid observations the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn. Order Date :- 1.11.2023 Deepak/ (Ashutosh Srivastava,J.) (Pritinker Diwaker,CJ.) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad