Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:34538 Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6507 of 2025 Petitioner :- Usha Devi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Panchayati Raj Lko. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Onkar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Abdul Moin,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents. 2. With the consent of learned counsels appearing for the contesting parties, the writ petition is finally being disposed of. 3. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that her husband, who was working as an Assistant Teacher, has died on election duty on 25.04.2021 on account of Covid. 4. The petitioner has staked her claim for the ex-gratia amount in pursuance to the Government Order dated 01.06.2021 but no decision has been taken by the authorities in this regard till date. 5. Considering the aforesaid, liberty is granted to the petitioner to submit a comprehensive representation for the redressal of her grievances pertaining to her grievance within a period of two weeks from today before the respondent No.2, who may consider the grievance of the petitioner in accordance with rules and shall endeavour to decide the representation by means of a reasoned and speaking order in accordance with law and relevant rules within a further period of six weeks from the date of submission of the representation along with the certified copy of this order. 6. With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is disposed of. 7. It is made clear that this Court has not gone into the merits of the claim set forth by the petitioner. Order Date :- 4.6.2025 S. Shivhare Digitally signed by :- SHASHANK SHIVHARE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench