Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:22795-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 3769 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ankit Kumar Verma And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Vaibhav Srivastava,Vishnu Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Manish Mishra, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. The petitioner has prayed for issuance of a writ or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite party no. 2 to decide the application of the petitioner for issuance of character certificate. 3. Let the application of the petitioner for issuance of character certificate be decided by the opposite party no. 2 with expedition, say, within a period of 15 days. 4. With the aforesaid observations/directions, the writ petition is disposed of. . (Om Prakash Shukla,J.) (Rajan Roy,J.) Order Date :- 22.4.2025 R.K.P. Digitally signed by :- RAJ KUMAR PATEL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench