Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:47564 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8999 of 2025 Petitioner :- Lobaba Faizi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Panchayati Raj Lko. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Bhuvan Dwivedi,Soumya Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Abdul Moin,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Dr Uday Veer Singh, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. With the consent of learned counsel appearing for the contesting parties, the writ petition is being finally decided. The instant writ petition has been filed contending that the petitioner's husband Shri Firoz Haidar was working as Assistant Teacher, was assigned election duty during COVID -19 period and he died on account of Covid-19. However, till date the ex-gratia amount as admissible to the petitioner in terms of Government Order dated 01.06.2021 has not been paid. On the other hand, learned counsel for the respondents states that the details of the petitioner having applied for ex-gratia is not available. After arguing the matter at some length, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that with regard to the reliefs sought in the writ petition, the petitioner may be permitted to submit a fresh representation before the respondent no.2 i.e. District Magistrate, District Mau which may be directed to be decided within a time frame fixed by this Court to which learned Counsel for the respondents has no objection. In view of the above, it is provided that in case the petitioner submits a representation within two weeks from today before respondent no.2 then respondent no.2 shall endevour to decide the same by means of a reasoned and speaking order in accordance with law and the relevant rules within a further period of six weeks from the date of submission of the representation along with certified copy of this order. With the aforesaid direction, writ petition is disposed of. It is made clear that this Court has not gone into the merits of the claim set forth by the petitioner. Order Date :- 13.8.2025 J. K. Dinkar Digitally signed by :- JESHU KUMAR DINKAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench