Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:72017 Court No. - 33 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 14064 of 2025 Petitioner :- Priyanshu Yadav Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Anand Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J. 1. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that the application for grant of firearm license filed by the petitioner on 20.06.2024 before the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Varanasi. It is argued that considerable time has already been lapsed but till date no final decision has been taken in the matter. 2. On the other hand, it is argued by learned Standing Counsel that the respondent No.2 will take a decision in the matter expeditiously. 3. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 4. Time and again such kind of matters are coming before this Court for deciding the application for grant of Firearm License which are pending before the District Magistrate concerned. The Arms Act and the Rules itself provide the timeline within which such applications are to be decided. However, the aforesaid timeline are not being honoured by the District Magistrate concerned and as a result of the same, flood of litigation are coming before this Court for seeking direction that the application for grant of fire arms license/renewal of arms license be decided in a time bound manner. The Court has passed various orders in such type of matters and pursuant to the decision taken by this Court, the Government has issued a Government Order dated 10.3.2025 directing all the District Magistrates to comply with the timelines provided for consideration of the application for firearm license. 5. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the present petition is disposed of directing the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Varanasi to decide the aforesaid application most expeditiously and preferably within a period of four weeks from today. 6. In case the decision has already been taken by the District Magistrate, Varanasi he will communicate the same to the petitioner forthwith. Order Date :- 6.5.2025 Arti Digitally signed by :- ARTI SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad