Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:2253 Court No. - 29 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 314 of 2025 Petitioner :- Barati Lal Mishra And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Cooperative Deptt. Lko. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Awadhesh Kumar Tiwari,Pankaj Kumar Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Shri Awadhesh Kumar Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioners and Shri Sandeep Sharma, the learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has sought quashing of an order dated 17.10.2018 passed by the District Magistrate, Lakhimpur Kheri. It has been stated that a similar order dated 17.10.2018 has been passed in respect of the petitioner No.2 also but a copy thereof has not been provided to him and quashing of both the orders has been sought by way of this writ petition. 3. Learned Standing Counsel has raised a preliminary objection that the petitioner has approached this Court after a delay of more than five years and there is absolutely no explanation for delay in filing the writ petition. 4. Confronted with the aforesaid preliminary objection raised by the learned Standing Counsel, the learned counsel for the petitioner kept on advancing submissions challenging merits of the impugned order dated 17.10.2018 but he could not satisfy the Court regarding the objections against maintainability of the writ petition on the ground of laches. 5. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as being barred by laches. . [Subhash Vidyarthi,J.] Order Date :- 13.1.2025 -Amit K-/Ram Digitally signed by :- RAM SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench