Vinay Kumar Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko and Another

Court No. - 17 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 10145 of 2023 Petitioner :- Vinay Kumar Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Baljeet Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J.

¶1Heard Sri Baljeet Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Standing counsel for the respondents.

¶2It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner moved an application for grant of arm's license by filing Application dated 8.7.2019 before respondent No.2 i.e. District Magistrate, Pratapgarh. I has been stated that comments were sought from the police station which were received and all the formalities were complied but no order was passed by respondent respondent No.2. Due to long pendency of the application another police report was called for which has also been submitted and is available on record but despite all the formalities having been completed respondent No2 has passed no order. In the aforesaid facts, present petition has been filed with a prayer to direct respondent No.2 to take decision on the application preferred by the petitioner for grant of arm's license.

¶3Learned Standing counsel does not object to the prayer made by the petitioner.

¶4Accordingly, in the aforesaid facts respondent No.2 is directed to decide the application preferred by the petitioner for grant of arm's license, expeditiously, say within a period of four weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him, in accordance with law.

¶5With aforesaid observations and directions the petition stands disposed of. (Alok Mathur, J.) Order Date :- 18.11.2023 RKM. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench