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2025 DAILYLAW 159362 (ALL)

SHIV KUMAR SINGH v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND 3 OTHERS

WRIC/8116/2025 · 2025-08-27

Brij Raj Singh, Sangeeta Chandra

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 8116 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE BRIJ RAJ SINGH, J. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the State Respondents. This petition has been filed with the following main prayer:- "Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Certiorari thereby quashing the rejecting of character certificate by the District Magistrate, Ayodhya, contained as Annexure No.1 to this writ petition." Learned Counsel for the petitioner says that his application for issuance of character certificate has been rejected by a cryptic order. A similarly situated petitioner Pawan Kumar Dubey had filed a Writ Petition before this Court bearing Writ-C No.7006 of 2025: Pawan Kumar Dubey Vs. State of U.P. and others, Neutral Citation No.-2025:AHC-LKO:44647- DB, which has been disposed of by the Coordinate Bench by its order dated 01.08.2025, a copy of which has been filed as annexure to the petition. We have gone through the judgement and order dated 01.08.2025. The order of rejection is set aside with a further direction to the District Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, Ravindra Kumar Dubey, Urvashi Vishwakarma Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Shiv Kumar Singh .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Magistrate, Ayodhya, to consider issuance of character certificate to the petitioner strictly in the light of observations made by the Division Bench of this Court in Writ-C No.718 of 2025: Anil Kumar Vs. State of U.P. and others. The application which has already been submitted by the petitioner shall stand revived consequent to our quashing the order of rejection. Let the Competent Authority comply with the judgement rendered in Anil Kumar Vs. State of U.P. and others passed in Writ-C No.718 of 2025, and pass a fresh order within a period of three weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him. With the aforesaid observations/ directions, the writ petition is disposed of. August 27, 2025 Rahul WRIC No. 8116 of 2025 2 (Brij Raj Singh,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAHUL TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench