Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:7677 Court No. - 18 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 1768 of 2006 Petitioner :- Manoj Kumar Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P.Through Secretary Revenue And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sharad Pathak,Ajay Kumar Singh Raj,Pt. S. Chandra,Vinod Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Kumar Nigam,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 2. This writ petition has been filed seeking following relief :- "issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned appointment order of of opposi party no.7 so far as it relates to the opposite party no.7 at item no.5 of the said impugned order as regular Collection Amine, as contained in Annexure No.1 to this writ petition; (b)issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to regularize the services of the petitioner as Collection Amin in accordance with the provisions contained under the U.P. Collection Amins Service Rules 1974, as amended from time to time and to pay his his salary regularly as admissible to regularly appointed Collection Amins together with the arrears of the same w.e.f. the date since the juniors of the petitioner have been regularised as such; (c) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to treat the petitioner as regular Collection Amin and to pay him the arrears of pay and other allowances and also other service benefits w.e.f. the date from which the juniors to the petitioner are getting the same," 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that petitioner wants to press prayer no.(i) only. So far as, prayer no.(ii) is concerned, the same has not been pressed by the petitioner on 30.11.2022. It has also been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that during pendency of this writ petition, original petitioner died and has been substituted by his heirs and it will be appropriate in case the regularization of the petitioner is considered, the grievance of the petitioner will be addressed. 4. Learned Standing Counsel, however, submitted that no useful purpose would be served in keeping this writ petition pending and a suitable direction may be issued to respondent No.3 to consider the claim of regularization of the petitioner, in accordance with law, in a time bound period. 5. In view of the same, this writ petition stands disposed of with direction to respondent No.3 to consider the claim of regularization strictly, in accordance with U.P. Collection Amins Service Rules 1974, as amended from time to time in accordance with law after providing opportunity of hearing to all the concerned parties, expeditiously, preferably within a period of 12 weeks from the date of production of a certified copy of this order. 6. It is made clear that claim of the petitioner has not been considered by this Court on merits. Order Date :- 6.2.2025 Rishabh [Manish Kumar Nigam, J.] Digitally signed by :- RISHABH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench