Raja Ram Sahu v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Panchayatiraj Lko. and 5 Others

Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9658 of 2023 Petitioner :- Raja Ram Sahu Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Panchayatiraj Lko. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajeev Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel. Petitioner has earlier filed a Writ Petition No.25805 (M/B) of 2019 for cancellation of death certificate issued on 04.04.2011. In the said writ petition, the Court had granted liberty to the petitioner to approach the appropriate authority for cancellation of death certificate as provided under the law. In furtherance thereto, the petitioner has moved an application under Section 11 of Registration of Births and Deaths Act, before the respondent no. 5/District Panchayat Raj Officer, Lucknow. Learned counsel for petitioner further submits that grievance of petitioner would be sufficiently met, in case aforesaid application of petitioner is considered and decided in a time bound manner. In view thereof, without entering into the merits of the case, the writ petition is disposed of with direction to respondent no.5/District Panchayat Raj Officer, Yojana Bhawan, Indira Nagar, Lucknow, to consider and decide the application of petitioner, by a reasoned and speaking order after hearing the parties concerned, in accordance with law, within a period of four weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is served upon him. (Manish Kumar, J.) (Vivek Chaudhary, J.) Order Date :- 3.11.2023 Arjun/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench