Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:32891 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 2085 of 2025 Petitioner :- Kedar Nath Sharma Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 7 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anand Prakash Pandey,Prabhakar Awasthi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Sanjay Kumar Om Hon'ble Ajay Bhanot,J. Sri Sanjay Kumar Om, learned counsel for the respondents submits that the petitioner has an alternative remedy of carrying the impugned order dated 28.10.2024 passed by the respondent No. 5 in appeal before the competent authority. Faced with this learned counsel for the petitioner Shri Anand Prakash Pandey does not dispute the aforesaid proposition. The petitioner has instituted this writ petition on bonafide legal advice. Hence the appeal should not be treated as time barred. The only prayer made is that the appeal may be decided on merits within a reasonable period of time. The appeal is to be decided with following directions:- 1) The appeal shall be filed within a period of one month. 2) In case it is filed within the said period along with a copy of this order, the appeal shall be decided on merits without going into the issue of delay. The writ petition is disposed of with the aforesaid directions. Order Date :- 6.3.2025 Jaswant Digitally signed by :- JASWANT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- JASWANT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad