Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:81012 Court No. - 50 Case :- WRIT - B No. - 1895 of 2025 Petitioner :- Smt. Runa Devi And Another Respondent :- Settlement Officer, Consolidation And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Awadhesh Prasad,Balbir Singh,Radhey Shyam Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Chandra Kumar Rai,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Pankaj Kumar, learned standing counsel for the state-respondents. 2. The instant writ petition has been filed for the following relief:- "Issue/pass an order, directing the interim stay application dated 11.12.2024, filed in Appeal No.134/148, under Rule 109(3) of the U.P. C.H. Rules (Runa Devi and Others vs. Ram Bahadur and Others) before the court of Settlement Officer of Consolidation, Ballia against the ex party proceeding/order dated 12.2.2024 in Case No.162, under Section 109 of the U.P. C.H. Act/Rules, before decided, without any further delay in this stipulated period. 3. Counsel for the petitioners submitted that appeal under Rule 109-A(3) of the U.P. C.H. Rules filed on behalf of the petitioner along with the prayer for condonation of delay as well as the application for interim relief is pending before respondent no.1/Settlement Officer since 11.12.2024. He submitted that appropriate direction be issued for the expeditious disposal of the pending appeal as well as prayer for interim relief in the appeal. 4. I have considered the arguments advanced by learned counsel for the petitioners and perused the records. 5. There is no dispute about the fact that the appeal filed by the petitioner is time-barred. 6. No case for expeditious disposal of the time-barred proceeding is made out. 7. The writ petition is dismissed. Order Date :- 16.5.2025 C.Prakash Digitally signed by :- CHANDRA PRAKASH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad