Pappu v. State of U.P. and 3 Others

Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 37769 of 2023 Petitioner :- Pappu Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vijay Pratap Singh,Amit Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C Hon'ble Salil Kumar Rai,J. Hon'ble Surendra Singh-I,J. The grievance of the petitioner in the present petition is that he is being forced by respondent Nos. 3 and 4 to work as labour at the crusher of the aforesaid respondents against the Will of the petitioner. The petitioner has submitted representation before the District Magistrate, District-Bijnor ventilating his grievance as the action of respondent Nos. 3 and 4 amounts to begaar and violates the rights of the petitioner under Article 23 of the Constitution of India. It has been further stated that despite several representations the District Magistrate is not taking any action to protect the petitioner from being forced to work as labour at the crusher of respondent Nos. 3 and 4 situated in Village-Jagahedi, Police Station-Titavi, District-Muzaffar Nagar. Be that as it may, looking to the contentions in the writ petition, without adverting to the merits of the case, the writ petition is being disposed of with the observation that the petitioner shall file a fresh representation giving complete narration of his grievances, alongwith the copy of this order within a period of two weeks from today, before the District Magistrate, District-Bijnor. In case, such a representation is filed, the District Magistrate, District-Bijnor shall decide the same after obtaining the comments of all concerned. Due opportunity of hearing shall be provided to respondent nos. 3 and 4 in the inquiry to be conducted by the District Magistrate at his own ends. An expeditious decision in accordance with law shall be taken by passing a reasoned and speaking order on the representation of the petitioner within a period of four weeks from the date of the receipt of the representation. With the aforesaid direction, the petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 2.11.2023 Anurag/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad