Geeta Devi v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Rural Development Civil Sectt. Lko. and Others

Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9905 of 2023 Petitioner :- Geeta Devi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Rural Development Civil Sectt. Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ajeet Kumar Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Pankaj Gupta Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. Heard. Petitioner has approached this court with following main prayer:- "(i) Issue writ order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned order dated 12.09.2023 of opposite party no. 5 contained as Annexure No. 1 to this petition whereby he declined to allot the Awaas to the petitioner.

(ii) Issue writ order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the concerned opposite parties that they consider the case of petitioner and allot the Awaas to the petitioner under Pradhan Mantri Avas Yojana (Grameen) within reasonable time as early as possible, in the interest of justice." Learned Standing Counsel has submitted that the matter is to be considered and decided by the Chief Development OfÏcer concerned i.e. respondent no.4. 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/Chief Development OfÏcer, Ayodhya, 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 :- 8.11.2023 Nitesh High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench