Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:32193 Court No. - 7 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 2857 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dilip Kumar Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anurag Bhatt,Rohit Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J. 1. The petitioner has preferred present writ petition inter-alia with the following prayers :- "i) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding and directing the respondent no.2 & 3 to initiate departmental enquiry for the UPTET 2017 examination dated 15.10.2017 and decide the application of petitioner dated 04.02.2025 pending before within stipulated as fix by this Hon'ble court. ii) issue any other writ, order or direction to the Respondent to conduct a through investigation into the alleged impersonation incident." 2. The facts in brief as contained in the writ petition is that earlier petitioner approached this Court by filing a petition being Writ C No.2287 of 2025, which was dismissed with the following observations on 23.01.2025 :- "Petitioner wants CCTV footage of the examination held for UPTET-2017. Present writ petition has been filed after almost 8 years of the examination. We are highly doubtful of preservation of CCTV footage after such lapse of time. No direction, therefore, is required to be issued in this belated claim instituted before this Court. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed." 3. When a query was raised by this Court that why this fact has been concealed by the petitioner while filing the present writ petition, it is informed by Mr. Anurag Bhatt, learned counsel for the petitioner that in the said writ petition a prayer has been made to provide CCTV Footage of the examination held for UPTET- 2017 and in the present writ petition prayer has been made to direct the respondent no.2-Secretary, Examination Regulatory Authority, U.P., Allahabad to initiate the departmental enquiry for UPTET-2017 examination. 4. In this view of the matter, petitioner does not think it proper to disclose the facts regarding filing of earlier writ petition by the petitioner and the order dated 23.01.2025 by which aforesaid writ petition was dismissed. 5. After going through the aforesaid facts, the Court is of the opinion that the material facts regarding filing of the earlier writ petition has been concealed by the petitioner while filing present writ petition hence the Court is of the opinion that present writ petition is not only liable to be dismissed but the exemplary cost is also liable to be imposed. 6. At this point of time, a prayer has been made by counsel for the petitioner to dismiss present writ petition as not pressed. 7. In this view of the matter, taking a lenient view present writ petition is dismissed as not pressed with cost of Rs.500/- which should be deposited by the petitioner in favour of High Court Bar Association, Allahabad within 24 hours. 8. Registrar (Compliance) is directed to communicate copy of this order to respondent no.4-Santosh Kumar Singh S/o Ram Lolarak Singh, Resident of Village & Post - Sakara, Police Station- Rampur, District Jaunpur through C.J.M., Jaunpur. Order Date :- 6.3.2025 Pramod Tripathi Digitally signed by :- PRAMOD TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad