Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:26948 Court No. - 33 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 5707 of 2025 Petitioner :- Sandeep Kumar Respondent :- Chief Information Commissioner, U.P. State Information Commission And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vijay Pal Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Kunal Ravi Singh Hon'ble Vikram D. Chauhan,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for respondent no.1 and learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. The writ petition is filed with the following prayer: "A. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing the Respondent No.1 to take necessary action against the Respondent No.3, due to non-disposal of RTI Application of the petitioner dated 11/12/2024 which is pending before him since 11/12/2024, within stipulated period as may be fixed by this Hon'ble Court. (Annexure No.1 to this writ petition). B. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of directing the Respondent No.1 (Chief Information Commissioner, U.P. State Information Commission, 6th Floor, Indira Bhawan, Lucknow) to decide the Appeal No.S-10- 2169/A/2021, Registration No.A-193233 (Devendra Singh Versus Public Information Officer and another) filed by the petitioner, u/s 19(3) of Right to Information Act, 2005, pending before him since 23/12/2021, within stipulated period as may be fixed by this Hon'ble Court. (Annexure No.4 to this Writ Petition)" 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that prayer "B" has been wrongly transcribed in the present writ petition and he is not pressing the prayer "B". 4. After some argument, learned counsel for petitioner submits that he may be permitted to withdraw the present writ petition with liberty to file an appeal against inaction on the part of the Public Information Officer in deciding the RTI Application. 5. Learned counsel for respondent no.1 has no objection. 6. Accordingly, the present writ petition is disposed of with liberty to petitioner to file an appeal within 30 days from today. In the event any such appeal is filed within the aforesaid period, the same shall be decided on merits without going into the question of limitation. Order Date :- 27.2.2025 D. Tamang Digitally signed by :- DHIRENDRA TAMANG High Court of Judicature at Allahabad