Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:16167 Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 3070 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dr. Vaibhav Sharan Pandey And 8 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Higher Education U.P. Lko. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Om Prakash Mani Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Ajai Kumar Rai,Akhilesh Kumar Srivastava Hon'ble Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J. 1. Heard Sri Om Prakash Mani Tripathi, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondent, Sri Akhilesh Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the opposite party Nos.2 and 5 and Sri Ajay Kumar Rai, learned counsel for the opposite party Nos.3 & 4. 2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for the following reliefs:- "(I) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties particularly the opposite party No.2, Chancellor, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur to consider and decide the representation dated 07.01.2025 of the petitioners, declaring their result in regard to selection held for the post of Assistant Professor owing to the advertisement dated 20.06.2020. (II) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to declare the result of the selection held for the posts of Assistant Professor Botany, Political Science, Mathematics, Zoology and Hindi in St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur. (III) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to allow the petitioners to oin their respective posts of Assistant Professor in St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur if they are found to be selected/ successful in the selection held in terms of the advertisement dated 20.06.2020." 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that for redressal of their grievance the petitioners have preferred representation to the competent authority but no appropriate decision has been taken on the same till date. By means of Annexure No.4, the petitioner has annexed one representation. 4. After arguing the matter at some length, learned counsel for the petitioners has requested that the petitioners are ready to prefer a fresh representation to the Competent Authority, therefore, liberty may be given to them to prefer afresh representation to the opposite party No.5 i.e. the Committee of Management, St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur through its Secretary and the direction may be issued him to consider and decide the said representation of the petitioners with expedition. 5. Learned counsel for the opposite parties has no objection if direction for disposal of the said representation is issued. 6. In view of the above, without entering into merits of the issue, the instant writ petition is being disposed of finally at the admission stage giving liberty to the petitioners to prefer a fresh representation to the opposite party No.5 i.e. Committee of Management, St. Andrew's College, Gorakhpur through its Secretary taking all pleas and grounds which are available with them for disposal of the representation annexing therewith copy of their earlier representation and the relevant documents in support of their claim within a period of fifteen days from today, and if any such representation is preferred by the petitioners within the aforesaid stipulated time, the authority concerned shall consider and decide the representation of the petitioners, strictly in accordance with law by passing a speaking and reasoned order, with expedition, preferably within a period of two months from the date of presentation of a certified copy of this order along with representation and the decision thereof be intimated to the petitioners forthwith. 7. In view of the aforesaid terms, the writ petition is disposed of finally. [Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J.] Order Date :- 20.3.2025 Suresh/ Digitally signed by :- SURESH CHANDRA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench