HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 14983 of 2025 Court No. - 34 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Vijay Gautam, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Ms. Arya Gautam, learned counsel for the writ petitioners, who are five in number and Sri Gaurav Singh, learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. A statement has been made by the learned counsel for the respective parties that they do not file any further affidavit and the writ petition be decided on the basis of the documents available on record.\ 3. With the consent of the parties, the writ petition is being decided at a fresh stage. 4. The case of the writ petitioner is that a recruitment exercise stood undertaken by the respondents, while issuing an advertisement on 17.06.2016 for the recruitment of Sub-Inspector in Civil Police, Platoon Commander in PAC, and Fire Station Second Officers in Fire Services. Out of total 2707 vacant posts, 2400 posts were of Sub-Inspectors. The case of the writ petitioners is that the writ petitioners being fully eligible and qualified in all respects participated in the said selection and thereafter on 28.06.2017 a notification came to be issued followed by another notification dated 30.11.2017 and the writ petitioners examination results were published on 30.05.2018 and they were required to appear in Document Verification and Physical Standard Test (DVPST). It is also the case of the writ petitioners that they were sent for training, however, in the midway, challenge was raised to the selections as well as the appointments so made, pursuant whereto the writ petitioners were selected and appointed. The challenge came to be endorsed in favour of the writ petitioners/ non- Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Atipriya Gautam, Divya Jyoti, Shyam Sharan Shrivastava, Sr. Advocate Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Anand Verma, Sub-Inspector And 4 Others .....Petitioner(s) The State Of .U.P. And 6 Others .....Respondent(s) selectees, against which a Civil Appeal came to be preferred being State of U.P. vs. Atul Kumar Dwivedi, 2022 (2) ADJ 178, pursuant whereto the order of Division Bench was set aside. Consequently, the writ petitioners were allowed to complete their training in the cases where some of the writ petitioners had not completed their training. 5. Grievance of the writ petitioners is that in pursuance of the Rule 22(2) of Uttar Pradesh Sub-Inspector and Inspectors (Civil Police), Service Rules, 2015, the seniority of the writ petitioners is to be determined and taken reckoned from the date of their selection. 6. Prayer in the present writ petition is to the extent that a mandamus be directed to the respondents to count the services of the writ petitioners since the date of initial appointment, i.e. June 2019, as per the 2015 Rules. 7. Sri Gaurav Singh, learned Standing Counsel on the other hand submits that the issue which the writ petitioners seek to raise needs determination at the first instance by the Respondent no.4/ Addl. Director General of Police, Karmik/Establishment, DGP Headquarters, Police Bhawan, Shaheed Path, Signature Building Gomti Nagar Extension, UP, Lucknow. He submits that it is for the writ petitioners to approach the said authority who shall redress the grievances. 8. Considering the submissions so made across the Bar, without going into the merits of the matter, bearing in mind the fact that no orders whatsoever have been passed, the writ petition stands disposed of directing the writ petitioner to prefer a comprehensive representation along with self attested copy of the writ petition and the certified copy of the order before Respondent no.4, who on the said motion shall proceed to consider the claim of the writ petitioner and pass appropriate orders and do the needful within a period of four months from the date of production of certified copy of the order. 9. Needless to point out that this Court had not adjudicated the merits of the matter and any of the observations made herein above may not be construed to an expression so as to influence of obsess the fourth respondent in passing the said orders. October 14, 2025 N.S.Rathour WRIA No. 14983 of 2025 2 (Vikas Budhwar,J.) Digitally signed by :- NIPENDRA SINGH RATHOUR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad