Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:21355 Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 4088 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dhananjai Kumar Gupta Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Basic Education And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ranjeet Singh,Phool Bux Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J. Heard Sri Phool Bux Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Pankaj Patel, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for opposite party nos. 1 to 4. In view of the order proposed to be passed, notice to opposite party nos. 5 and 6 are hereby dispensed with. By means of the instant petition, the petitioner has prayed the following reliefs:- "(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of MANDAMUS thereby commanding and directing the Opposite Parties to consider the claim of petitioner for payment of retiral dues of his wife, who was working in Maharaja Agrasen Balika Vidyalaya, Daliganj and unfortunately she died on 25/07/2016. (ii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of MANDAMUS thereby commanding and directing the Opposite Party No.4 to consider and decide the representation of the petitioner dated 18.08.2024, as contained in Annexure No.1 to this writ petition. (iii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of MANDAMUS thereby commanding and directing the Opposite Parties to make payment of death / retiral dues of the wife of the petitioner alongwith all consequential benefits with interest @ 24% per annum." Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is ready to prefer a fresh representation to the Competent Authority, therefore, he may be permitted to prefer a fresh representation to the opposite party No.4, i.e., Basic Shiksha Adhikari, District- Lucknow and a direction may be issued to him to consider and decide the said representation of the petitioner with expedition. Learned Standing Counsel has no objection if direction for disposal of the said representation is issued. Therefore, in view of the above, without entering into merits of the issue, I hereby dispose of this petition finally at the admission stage giving liberty to the petitioner to prefer a fresh representation to the opposite party No.4, i.e., Basic Shiksha Adhikari, District- Lucknow ventilating his grievance taking all pleas and grounds which are available with him enclosing therewith the copy of his earlier representation, if any, which are necessary for disposal of the representation within a period of fifteen days from today and if such representation is preferred by the petitioner within the aforesaid stipulated time, the authority concerned shall consider and dispose of the same strictly, by speaking and reasoned order in accordance with law after affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner, if it is so required, with expedition preferably, within a period of ten weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order and the decision thereof shall be intimated to the petitioner forthwith. This writ petition is disposed of, in view of the aforesaid terms. Order Date :- 16.4.2025 Anurag Digitally signed by :- ANURAG SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench