Ashish Kumar Mishra v. State of U.P. Thru. Chief Secy., Lko. and 3 Others

Chief Justice's Court Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 436 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ashish Kumar Mishra Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Chief Secy., Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Satish Kumar Misra,Alok Kr. Misra,Kumar Vikram Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Pritinker Diwaker,Chief Justice Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Sri S.K. Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Rajesh Tiwari, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents. In this petition, the petitioner has prayed that a direction may be issued to the Additional Chief Secretary, Basic Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh for allotting Unique Identification Number (UID) to the students under the provisions of the U.P. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011. Counsel for the petitioner submits that issuance of such direction would serve the purpose of filing the present petition and but for this relief, the petitioner is not pressing the other reliefs. He submits that he may be permitted to withdraw the petition with liberty to file a detailed representation before the said authority. State counsel has no objection to this proposition. He, however, submits that a reasonable time be given to the Additional Chief Secretary, Basic Education for deciding the representation. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to file a detailed representation before the Additional Chief Secretary, Basic Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh and in the eventuality of doing so, the said authority is expected to decide the representation in an objective manner by a speaking order within a period of four months. Order Date :- 19.5.2023 RK (Rajan Roy, J) (Pritinker Diwaker, CJ) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench