HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 11273 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE AMITABH KUMAR RAI, J. 1. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the State Respondents. 2. This petition has been filed with the following main prayer:- "A Writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari thereby quashing the order/decision taken by opposite party no.4 after summoning the same whereby the application dated 08.05.2025 preferred by petitioner for issuance of character certificate has been rejected, forthwith in the interest of justice." 3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner says that his application for issuance of character certificate has been rejected by a cryptic order on account of pendency of a criminal case. 4. 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. 5. The order of rejection is set aside with a further direction to the Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Dileep Singh, Ashish Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Magan Murti Singh .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) Superintendent of Police, Pratapgarh, 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 rejection. 6. 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. 7. With the aforesaid observations/ directions, the writ petition is disposed of. November 24, 2025 Rahul WRIC No. 11273 of 2025 2 (Amitabh Kumar Rai,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAHUL TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench