Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:8011 Court No. - 19 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 942 of 2025 Petitioner :- Devki Nandan Pandey Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ripu Daman Shahi,Ajay Kumar Pandey,Manoj Kumar Dwivedi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Mathur,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned State Counsel for opposite parties. 2. Petition has been filed challenging the order dated 29.08.2022, passed by the District Magistrate, Lucknow whereby petitioner's application for grant of arms licence has been rejected.It has been submitted that the application has been rejected primarily on the grounds that firstly, the relevant columns of the application were not filled up and also that the permanent address provided by petitioner did not match with the one given in police report. 3. However, learned counsel for petitioner, on the basis of instructions submits that the petitioner may be granted liberty to file fresh application for grant of Arms licence, which may be considered and decided expeditiously. 4. In view of the innocuous prayer being made and without entering into merits of the case or the validity of the impugned order dated 29.08.2022, liberty is granted to petitioner to file fresh application for grant of arms licence which shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law and in terms of the time limit prescribed under the statute. 5. Accordingly, the petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 7.2.2025 DiVYa Digitally signed by :- DIVYA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- DIVYA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench