Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:144187-DB Court No. - 40 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 5389 of 2012 Petitioner :- Branch Manager National Insurance Co Ltd Respondent :- State of U.P. and Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Nagendra Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- K.P. Verma,V.K.Rai. Hon'ble Saral Srivastava,J. Hon'ble Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal,J. 1. Heard Sri Nagendra Kr. Srivastava,learned counsel for petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the respondent. 2. Demand of licence fee by Nagar Nigam, Bhadohi/Sant Ravidas Nagar from Insurance Company pursuant to Government Order dated 16th December, 1997 has been challenged in the present writ petition. 3. Similar issue was raised in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No.14037 of 1999 (United India Insurance Company Limited Versus Nagar Nigam, Allahabad, wherein aforesaid demand has been upheld and writ petition has been dismissed. We are informed that similar order was passed in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No.12919 of 1999, decided on 19th May, 2003. Against order dated 19th May, 2003, New India Insurance Company Ltd filed Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No.19957 of 2003, which has been dismissed by Supreme Court by following order: "We have heard Mr Vishnu Mehra, learned counsel at great length. In our view, this matter is identical to the Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.16434 of 2003 which is dismissed. We see no reason to take a different view. The Special Leave Petitions stand dismissed." 4. Since this very issue has already been decided in aforesaid cases, particularly writ petition filed by New India Insurance Company Ltd. also, the order impugned is squarely covered by aforesaid judgement, hence for the reasons stated in the aforementioned judgements, this writ petition is dismissed. 5. Interim order, if any, stands vacated. Order Date :- 20.8.2025 KS (Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal,J.) (Saral Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- KISHAN SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad