Vinod Pandey v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. of Home Civil Secrt. Lko. and Others

Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 10345 of 2023 Petitioner :- Vinod Pandey Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Civil Secrt. Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vaibhav Mishra,Tribhuvan Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for petitioner and Shri Nishant Shukla, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

¶2Present writ petition is filed by petitioner-Vinod Pandey praying that respondent no.2 may be directed to decide the application for grant of the character certificate and issue character certificate in favour of the petitioner for regulating his business.

¶3Learned counsel for petitioner submits that grievance of petitioner would be sufficiently met in case respondent no.2 considers and decides the application filed by the petitioner in a time bound manner.

¶4Looking to the facts and circumstances and without entering into the merits of the case, respondent no.2-District Magistrate, Lucknow is directed to consider and decide the pending application filed by the petitioner by passing a reasoned and speaking order expeditiously and preferably within a period of four weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is placed before him.

¶5With the aforesaid direction, present writ petition is disposed of. (Om Prakash Shukla, J.) (Attau Rahman Masoodi, J.) Order Date :- 28.11.2023 Shubhankar High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench