Rajesh Kumar v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy./Addl. Chief Secy. Home, Lko. and 3 Others

Court No. - 17 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9995 of 2023 Petitioner :- Rajesh Kumar Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy./Addl. Chief Secy. Home, Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ramesh Chandra Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J.

¶1Heard Sri Ramesh Chandra Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Standing Counsel for the respondents.

¶2By means of present writ petition the petitioner has sought direction to respondent no. 2 to issue fire arm license in favour of petitioner.

¶3It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that his Grandfather was having fire arm license in his name, he died on 24.12.2022. After death of grandfather of the petitioner he made an application to the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar for grant of fire arm license and to transfer the gun license of his grand father in his favour on 20.09.2023. It is submitted that on the said application no action has been taken by the authorities till date.

¶4After arguing the matter up to some length, it is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that grievance of the petitioner shall be substantially redressed in case suitable directions are issued to the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar to consider and pass appropriate orders on the application of the petitioner dated 20.09.2023 for grant/transfer of fire arm license, expeditiously.

¶5Learned Standing Counsel has no objection in case suitable directions are issued to the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar to consider and decide petitioner's application for grant of fire arm license.

¶6In view of above, without entering into the merits of the case, present writ petition is disposed of with direction to the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar to consider and decide petitioner's application dated

20.09.2023, for grant of fire arm license expeditiously, say within a period of two months from the date of production of certified copy of this order, in accordance with law. Order Date :- 9.11.2023 A. Verma (Alok Mathur, J.) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench