Karunapati Singh v. State of U.P. and 17 Others

Court No. - 52 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 37746 of 2023 Petitioner :- Karunapati Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 17 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pawan Kumar Rao,Rajiv Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.

¶1Heard Sri Pawan Kumar Rao, learned counsel for petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

¶2Present writ petition has been filed seeking a direction in the nature of mandamus to be issued in favour of the respondent no.3 to decide stay application dated 08.09.2023 filed in Appeal no. 1520 of 2023 registered as Computerized Case No. C202305000001520 (Karunapati Singh vs. Ramesh and others), under Section 24(4) of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 expeditiously.

¶3Learned counsel for petitioner submits that grievance of petitioner would sufficiently be met in case, the stay application dated 08.09.2023 is considered and decided in a time bound manner by respondent no. 3.

¶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.3 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.3 is hereby directed to consider and decide stay application dated 08.09.2023 filed in Appeal no. 1520 of 2023 registered as Computerized Case No. C202305000001520 (Karunapati Singh vs. Ramesh and others), under Section 24(4) of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of one month from the date of production of certified copy of this order, after affording proper opportunity of hearing to all the parties.

¶6With the aforesaid directions, the writ petition stands disposed of. Order Date :- 2.11.2023 Shaswat High Court of Judicature at Allahabad