Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:27073 Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 5103 of 2025 Petitioner :- Harindra Nath Verma Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. /Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Cooperative U.P. Lko. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajendra Kumar Rajbhar,Vijay Kumar Jaiswal Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Shivanshu Goswami Hon'ble Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J. Heard Sri Rajendra Kumar Rajbhar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Nitin Mathur, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for opposite party nos. 1 and 2 and Sri Shivanshu Goswami, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 3. By means of this petition, the petitioner has assailed the punishment order dated 12.09.2023 passed by opposite party no. 3 by which the petitioner was denied the arrears of salary for the suspension period and he has also been awarded censoring. Sri Goswami has drawn attention of this Court towards Regulation 86 of U.P. Cooperative Society Employees Service Regulation 1975 which provides appeal and the appeal lies before the Chairman of the Federation, therefore, Sri Goswami has stated that the petitioner should file an appeal under the Regulation 86 of the Regulation, 1975. Learned counsel for the petitioner has stated that direction may be issued to the appellate authority to decide the appeal with expedition. Therefore, without entering into the merits of the issue and without interfering the impugned punishment order dated 12.09.2023, I hereby dispose of this petition finally at the admission stage giving liberty to the petitioner to file statutory appeal under the Regulation 86 of the Regulation, 1975 within a period of 15 days taking all pleas and grounds which are available to him and if such appeal is filed, the same may be heard and disposed of finally strictly in accordance with law and also on merits, condoning the delay, by affording opportunity of hearing to the petitioner with expedition, preferably within a period of six weeks from the production of certified copy of the order of this court and decision thereof shall be intimated to the petitioner forthwith. Order Date :- 8.5.2025/Anurag Digitally signed by :- ANURAG SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench