HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 34860 of 2025 Court No. - 29 HON'BLE MAHESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI, J. HON'BLE KUNAL RAVI SINGH, J. 1. Heard Shri Kripa Shankar Shukla, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Ambrish Shukla, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-respondents. 2. The instant writ petition has been filed praying inter alia for the following relief: "I. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.3 to dispose off application dated 05.12.2024 (Annexure no.2), under section 28A of Land Acquisition Act, 1894 within a stipulated period of three months; II. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no.3 referred the application dated 05.12.2024 to the District Judge, Bhadohi to decide on merit;" 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner confined his prayer to the limited extent that the petitioner’s application dated 05.12.2024 may be decided expeditiously in light of the Division Bench judgment and order dated 01.11.2021 passed in Writ - C No. 24651 of 2021 (Rajesh Kumar vs. State of U.P. and another), wherein a general mandamus was issued to the State of U.P. to collect information from all Special Land Acquisition Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Anurag Shukla, Kripa Shankar Shukla Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Ram Chandra .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Officers or other concerned officers regarding the pendency of applications filed by landowners under Section 28A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and to ensure that all such applications are disposed of within four months from the date of receipt of a copy of the said order. 4. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the writ petition is finally disposed of with the observation that if the petitioner’s aforesaid application is within limitation, respondent no.3 – Special Land Acquisition Officer (Sanyukt Sangthan), Bhadohi, District Bhadohi, shall pass an appropriate order thereon and accordingly the same is liable to be referred, the same may be referred to the competent court in accordance with law. 5. It is made clear that this Court has not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case or on the issue of limitation. October 7, 2025 NLY WRIC No. 34860 of 2025 2 (Kunal Ravi Singh,J.) (Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.) Digitally signed by :- NAND LAL YADAV High Court of Judicature at Allahabad