HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 10688 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, 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:- "(i) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus thereby commanding and directing the opposite party no.2 to issue character certificate in favour of petitioner, at the earliest possible, within stipulated time period." Learned Counsel for the petitioner says that the petitioner had applied for issuance of character certificate from the office of District Magistrate, Raebareli as the earlier character certificate issued to him had expired on 17.03.2023 but on the basis of police report the District Magistrate, Raebareli is not issuing the character certificate to him. The petitioner has also sent a representation to the opposite party no.2 on 18.10.2025. 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. We have gone through the judgement and order dated 01.08.2025. District Magistrate, Raebareli is directed 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Veer Bahadur Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Anand Kumar .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home And Another .....Respondent(s) 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. November 7, 2025 mks WRIC No. 10688 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- MANISH SAXENA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench