Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36465-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 5966 of 2025 Petitioner :- Rajendra Kumar Mishra And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ashok Kumar Bajpai,Abhishek Kumar,Belal Ahmad,Chandra Prakash Tripathi,Kadambani Lal,Satyendra Kumar Gupta,Surendra Prasad Gupta Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J. Hon'ble Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal,J. 1. Heard Sri Ashok Kumar Bajpai, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the State- respondents. 2. The present petition has been filed seeking direction to the State-respondents to give protection to the petitioners who are senior citizens residing in a house no.562/88, Katyani Bhawan, Kanpur Road, Lucknow and protect them from respondent no.4, who is the daughter-in-law. All the reliefs have been sought by the petitioners claiming themselves to be senior citizens of the daughter- in-law. 3. Learned Standing Counsel, at the very outset has submitted that with regard to the prayers made in the present petition, the petitioners have efficacious alternative remedy under the provision of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act, 2007'). He has submitted that under the said Act, the petitioners have to move an application before the competent authority, who after due enquiry can pass orders as prayed for by the petitioners in the present writ petition. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners does not dispute the aforesaid facts. He submits that he may be granted liberty to file an appropriate application under the Act, 2007. 5. Accordingly, the petition is dismissed as not pressed granting liberty to the petitioners to move an appropriate application under the Act, 2007. 6. In case, such an application is filed within next two weeks, the authority shall consider the same in accordance with law and decide the same, expeditiously. Order Date :- 26.6.2025 *S.Chaurasia* (Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal, J.) (Alok Mathur, J.) Digitally signed by :- SHUBHAM CHAURASIA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench