Hemant Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Govt. Lko. and Others

Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9418 of 2023 Petitioner :- Hemant Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Govt. Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anuj Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. Writ petition has been preferred with the following main prayer:- " i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to immediately consider the case of the petitioner in light of the orders passed by the learned Trial Court on 01.12.2018 and 15.04.2019 and under the "Witness Protection Scheme 2018" and provide armed police personnel equipped with suitable weapon till the end of trial of Case Crime No. 785 of 2007 under Section 302 I.P.C. at Police Station Gomti Nagar, District Lucknow. " Learned counsel for petitioner submits that grievance of petitioner would be substantially met in case application of petitioner for the said purposes is considered and decided in a time bound manner. Learned counsel for respondents has no objection to the same. Without entering into merits of the case, the petitioner is permitted to make an application before the respondent no.4/District General of Police, Police Headquarter, D.G.P. office, raising all his grievance, annexing therewith a copy of this writ petition along with annexures and all the documents in support of his claim within a period of two weeks from today along with a certified copy of this order. In case such a application is moved by petitioner, respondent no.4, shall consider and decide the same in accordance with law after hearing all the concerned parties by a reasoned and speaking order within a period of six weeks from the date a certified copy of this order along with application is placed before him. With the aforesaid directions, present writ petition is disposed of. (Manish Kumar,J) (Vivek Chaudhary,J) Order Date :- 28.10.2023 Ashish High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench