Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:113419 Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6293 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dr. Rajesh Nigam And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Durga Tiwari Counsel for Respondent :- Uday Pratap Singh,C.S.C. Hon'ble Chandra Dhari Singh,J. 1. The instant writ petition has been filed seeking for the following reliefs:- " (a) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents authorities to grant the gratuity along with 6% P.A. interest to all the petitioners in lieu of the services tendered as teachers in their university under the payment of Gratuity Act 19782 as well as in the light of order dated 01.10.2024 passed by this Hon'ble Court in the leading writ petition bearing no. 57274 of 2024 (University College Ret. Teachers Welfarfe Asso. Lko Vs. State of UP and others). (b) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondent no. 1 (State of UP through its Additional Chief Secretary (Animal Husbandry) Civil Secretariat Lucknow) to decide the representation of the petitioners for the payment of Gratuity alongwith 6% P.A interest under the payment of Gratuity Act 1972 as well as in the light of order dated 01.10.2024 passed by this Hon'ble court in the leading writ petition bearing no. 57274 of 2024 (University College Ret. Teachers Welfare Asso. Lko Vs. State of UP and others)." 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioners without entering into the merits of the case made innocuous prayer that respective representations of the petitioners are pending before respondent no. 1 since 2024. It is further submitted that respondent no. 1 may be directed to decided the said representations in time bound manner. 3. Sri Dinesh Kumar Singh, learned standing counsel appearing on behalf of State-respondents vehemently opposed the petition on merit, but has not opposed the prayer as made by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners. 4. Heard Sri Durga Tiwari, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Sri Dinesh Kumar Singh, learned Standing Counsel and Sri Uday Pratap Singh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent nos. 2 to 4, perused the contents made in the writ petition. 5. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the University has vehemently opposed this writ petition on merit but has no objection on the innocuous prayer made by the petitioners for deciding the said respective representations, which is appended collectively as Annexure-2 of the paper book. 6. Without entering into merits of the case, I am inclined to allow the innocuous prayer made by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners as no objection made by learned standing counsel, Respondent no. 1 is directed to decide the said representations by a detailed order in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of the certified copy of this order. 7. With the aforesaid directions/observations, the present writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 15.7.2025 S.K.S. (Chandra Dhari Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- SUNIL KUMAR SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad