HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - A No. - 4561 of 2023 Court No. - 7 HON'BLE MANISH MATHUR, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned State counsel for opposite parties. 2. Petition has been filed challenging orders dated 12th April 2023 and 28th October 2022, whereby petitioner's application for compassionate appointment in terms of Uttar Pradesh Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974 was kept in abeyance on account of Criminal Case No. 199 of 2021 under section 5/25 of the Arms Act having been registered. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that petitioner's father, late Akhilesh Singh, passed away in service on 26th August 2018, whereafter petitioner submitted his claim for compassionate appointment on 17th November 2018 in which the impugned order has been passed. 4. He has thereafter adverted to the judgment and order dated 6th September 2025 passed in the aforesaid case crime No. 199 of 2021 as Sessions Trial No. 263 of 2023 to submit that petitioner has been acquitted of charges levelled against him. 5. In view of the fact that petitioner now stands acquitted in Criminal Case No. 199 of 2021, the opposite party No. 5 i.e. Senior Superintendent of Police, Faizabad (Ayodhya), Ayodhya is directed to consider petitioner's Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Abhishek Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Vivek Kumar Singh .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) application for compassionate appointment afresh within a period of six weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is served upon the said authority. 6. With the aforesaid directions, the petition stands disposed of. December 3, 2025 prabhat WRIA No. 4561 of 2023 2 (Manish Mathur,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRABHAT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- PRABHAT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench