HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - A No. - 13258 of 2025 Court No. - 20 HON'BLE SYED QAMAR HASAN RIZVI, J. 1. Heard Shri S.B. Pandey, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Varun Pandey, learned counsel for petitioner, Dr. Uday Veer Singh, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State//respondent no. 1 and 2 and perused the material available on record. 2. Precisely the submission of learned counsel for petitioner is that the petitioner is working on the post of Junior Engineer and has been transferred from Zila Panchayat Unnao to Zila Panchayat Baghpat by means of transfer order dated 08.08.2025. Pursuant to the said transfer order, the petitioner was relieved from the office of Zila Panchayat Unnao vide letter dated 18.08.2025. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner has submitted that by means of relieving letter dated 18.08.2025, the petitioner joined on 21.08.2025 at Zila Panchayat, Baghpat. 4. The grievance of the petitioner is that since the date of joining in the office of Apar Mukhya Adhikari, Zila Panchayat Baghpat, the petitioner has not been paid salary. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Varun Pandey, Shashank Mishra, Vandana Shukla Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Santosh Kumar Shukla .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Panchayati Raj Lko. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) petitioner that the petitioner has come to know that his Service Book and last pay certificate has been withheld by Apar Mukhya Adhikari, Zila Panchayat, Unnao and the same has not been sent to the office of Apar Mukhya Adhikari, Zila Panchayat Baghpat (respondent no. 4). 5. It has been submitted by learned counsel for petitioner that the failure on the part of respondent no. 3 for not transferring the Service Book and last pay certificate without any reason or justification is totally illegal and arbitrary. It is further submitted that due to non-payment of salary, the petitioner and his family is facing great financial hardship. 6. Learned counsel for petitioner has submitted that in this regard the petitioner preferred several representations to Apar Mukhya Adhikari, Zila Panchayat, Baghpat (respondent no. 3) but till date no action has been taken in that regard. The petitioner has also raised his grievance on the IGRS Portal on 02.10.2025, 15,10.2025 and 24.10.2025 but all went in vain. 7. Be that as it may, the representations filed by the petitioner are pending consideration, the same deserves consideration. 8. Taking into account the submissions of learned counsel for the petitioner, this Court is of the definite view that no useful purpose would be served to keep the writ petition pending. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed off at the admission stage itself by granting liberty to the petitioner to prefer a comprehensive representation narrating the facts in detail and all other pleas that are available to him before the Director, Department of Panchayati Raj, Government of U.P., Lucknow within a period of ten days from today. In case such a representation is received by the opposite party no.2 within the time frame as provided by this Court, WRIA No. 13258 of 2025 2 the Director, Department of Panchayati Raj, Government of U.P., Lucknow (respondent no. 2) shall consider the case of the petitioner and take appropriate steps to ventilate the grievances of the petitioner. It is expected that the said authority shall endeavour to dispose of the said representation within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of said representation by passing a reasoned order, strictly in accordance with law. 9. With the aforesaid directions/observations, the present writ petition is disposed of. November 18, 2025 Virendra WRIA No. 13258 of 2025 3 (Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi,J.) Digitally signed by :- VIRENDRA KUMAR GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench