HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 8680 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE BRIJ RAJ SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the State Respondents. 2. This petition has been filed with the following main prayer:- "(i) To issue an appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to process and decide the petitioner's applications for issuance of Character Certificate (Service Request No.316462466650 dated 12.11.2024, and / or subsequent application Service Request No.316462514194 dated 08.05.2025) within a stipulated period, say four weeks; (ii) Direct the respondents to issue the Character Certificate in favour of the Petitioner, or in the alternative, to pass a reasoned order indicating lawful grounds for refusal. (iii) Declare that mere pendency of a criminal case cannot be treated as an absolute bare for issuance of character certificate under law." 3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner says that he has given applications for issuance of character certificate but the same have not been decided till date. 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. 4. We have gone through the judgement and order dated 01.08.2025. 5. District Magistrate, Gonda, 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. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Narsingh Yadav, Abhishek, Prashant Dubey Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Prem Chandra Pandey .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) 6. 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 an order within a period of three weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him. 7. With the aforesaid observations/ directions, the writ petition is disposed of. September 9, 2025 mks WRIC No. 8680 of 2025 2 (Brij Raj Singh,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- MANISH SAXENA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench