HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 9396 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE BRIJ RAJ SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel, who appears for the State-opposite parties, Shri Prashant Tiwari, who has put in appearance on behalf of opposite party no.6 by filing his 'vakalatnama', which is taken on record, and perused the record. 2. This writ petition has been filed by petitioner with following main prayer: "i. Issued a writ, order or direction in nature of MANDAMUS thereby commanding the opposite Parties to fair and proper inquiry of the fake and fraudulent development only on paper work and release of payment from allocated budget without any actual development / construction work in the village by nexus between contractor village pradhan and village secretary and other officials from the years 2020-2025 in construction of kharanja, R.C.C. road and in Drinking Water Mission, and also on discharging the duties by the responsible in inquiry of corruption in development work in the Village Puranpur Arjunpur Block Tulsipur, District Balrampur Uttar Pradesh by a independent inquiry agency as Special Investigation Team, Economics Offences Wing or any other inquiry agency." 3. It is the case of the petitioners that there are several financial irregularities in the development work carried out in Village Puranpur Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Devesh Kumar Verma, Pramod Kumar Rawat Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Wazihul Kamar Khan And Another .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Rural Development U.P. Lko. And 5 Others .....Respondent(s) Arjunpur, Block Tulsipur, District Balrampur that has been committed by the Village Pradhan and Village Panchayat Secretary and Village Panchayat Vikas Nidhi has been misappropriated by them. The petitioners have made a complaint to the District Magistrate, Balrampur on 31.01.2025, but no action has been taken thereon. Hence, this writ petition has been filed with the aforesaid prayer. 4. Learned Standing Counsel has produced before this Court instructions dated 22.09.2025 sent by the District Panchayatraj Officer, Balrampur, wherein it has been stated that earlier one complaint had been made on 30.12.2024 by Wajhul Khan, Mohd. Umer, Jamal and others on which an inquiry has been instituted by the Chief Development Officer, Balrampur on 29.01.2025, whereon the District Finance and Statistic Officer, Balrampur and Assistant Engineer, Minor Irrigation, Balrampur have been asked to look into the allegations made in the complaint. A report has been submitted by the Two Members Committee on 30.04.2025 to the Chief Development Officer, Balrampur. 5. Later on, Mohd. Aslam s/o Dhokhe, resident of Village Puranpur Arjunpur, Block Tulsipur, District Balrampur has made a complaint to the District Magistrate, Balrampur and the District Magistrate, Balrampur has constituted another inquiry on 02.07.2025 directing the Chief Development Officer, Balrampur to look into the matter. The District Level Officers Committee has been constituted, wherein the District Cane Officer, Balrampur is one of the members. The District Cane Officer has not submitted his report and a reminder has been sent on 19.09.2025. Inquiry report is awaited and whenever inquiry report is made available, appropriate action shall be taken in accordance with law. The instructions dated 22.09.2025 are taken on record. 6. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. September 25, 2025 Anupam S/- WRIC No. 9396 of 2025 2 (Brij Raj Singh,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- ANUPAM SINGH PATEL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench