Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:116033 Court No. - 1 Case :- CONTEMPT APPLICATION (CIVIL) No. - 1856 of 2025 Applicant :- Dr Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary And 40 Others Opposite Party :- Ms. Alka Upadhyay, Secretary, Ministry Of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry And Dairying, Department Of Animal Husbandry And Dairying, Government Of India Counsel for Applicant :- Siddharth Nandan Hon'ble Neeraj Tiwari,J. 1. Heard Sri Siddharth Nandan, learned counsel for applicants and Sri S.P. Singh, learned Senior Counsel/Additional Solicitor General of India assisted by Sri Gaurav Bishan, learned counsel for opposite party. 2. Case was heard on 10.07.2025 and Court has passed following order:- "Heard learned counsel for the applicants and Sri S.P. Singh, learned Additional Solicitor General of India assisted by Sri Vivek Kumar Singh and Sri Gaurav Bishen, learned counsel for the opposite party. Pursuant to the order of this Court, 21.5.2025, Sri S.P. Singh, learned Additional Solicitor General of India has filed compliance affidavit, which is taken on record. Apart from that, Ms. Alka Upadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India is present through vedio conferencing. Alongwith affidavit, order dated 17.6.2025 is annexed and according to that, Secretary is not competent to pass order in present dispute and for that Department of Higher Education, Government of India is competent authority. Learned counsel for the applicant is granted one week time to go through the affidavit and seek instruction from his client. List this case on 17.7.2025 at 2:00 P.M. Personal appearance of Ms. Alka Upadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India is exempted until further order of this Court. " 3. Pursuant to the order of this Court, learned counsel for applicants informed that earlier vide order dated 09.01.2025, Writ- A No. 200 of 2025 was disposed of only recording the statements of Sir Gaurav Bishan, therefore, under such new facts of the case, applicants have filed fresh petition in light of order dated 17.06.2025 seeking direction against the competent authority. 4. Therefore, under such facts, no further order is required to be passed. 5. File is consigned to the record. Order Date :- 17.7.2025 Sartaj Digitally signed by :- SARTAJ AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad