HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 11197 of 2025 Court No. - 17 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Harendra Singh holding brief of Sri Satish Kumar Sharma, the learned counsel for the petitioner, and Sri Ashutosh Srivastava, the learned Standing Counsel for the State of U.P. 2. By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has challenged validity of an order dated 09.10.2025 passed by the Joint Commissioner Food, Lucknow Division, Lucknow in Appeal No. 3995/2025 under Clause 13(3) of the Uttar Pradesh Essential Commodities (Regulation of Sale and Distribution Control) Order, 2016, whereby the petitioner's application for interim relief has been rejected. 3. The rejection order was passed on 09.10.2025, the present petition has been filed on 17.11.2025. 4. The appeal is ripe for hearing. 5. In these circumstances, it would be proper that the petitioner's appeal itself be decided expeditiously. 6. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that in similar circumstances, this Court has granted interim relief to numerous petitioners Two such orders have been annexed as Annexures No. 5 & 6 to the writ petition. Those orders have been passed in Writ C No. 7528/2025, 7525/2025, on 07.08.2025. Both the aforesaid writ petitions had been filed challenging the rejection of interim relief by means of an Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Satish Kumar Sharma Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Poonam Kapoor @ Poonam .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Food And Civil Supplies U.P. Govt. Lko. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) order passed on 30.07.2025, from which it appears that the writ petitions have been filed promptly after rejection of the interim relief application and in these circumstances, this Court had granted interim relief to the petitioner. 7. In the present case, the petitioner has not approached this Court with all possible promptitude after rejection of the interim relief application. 8. In these circumstances, the writ petition is disposed of by directing the Joint Commissioner Food, Lucknow Division, Lucknow to decide the petitioner's Appeal No. 3995/2025 under Clause 13(3) of the Uttar Pradesh Essential Commodities (Regulation of Sale and Distribution Control) Order, 2016 expeditiously, say within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. November 27, 2025 Pradeep/- WRIC No. 11197 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench