Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:106992 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6866 of 2025 Petitioner :- Suraj Kumar Rawat Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Jay Prakash Gupta,Sunil Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Mritunjay Mohan Sahai Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J. 1. Heard Sri Sunil Kumar Singh, learned counsel for petitioner and Sri M.M. Sahai, Advocate for Respondents-3 to 5. 2. Petitioner has submitted a belated application for compassionate appointment as his father died in harness on 23.06.2020 whereas application was filed on 17.04.2025, i.e., after five years. 3. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that reasons to condone delay is referred in the representation as well as in present writ petition and prays that the same may be considered in accordance with law. 4. Learned counsel for respondents submits that petitioner’s grievance will be considered, however, delay will also be taken note of and in case there is any legal impediment, the same will be communicated to petitioner. 5. Taking note of above submissions, this writ petition is disposed of with observation that application of petitioner be considered in accordance with law expeditiously taking note of judgments passed by Supreme Court in Bank of Baroda and others vs. Baljit Singh, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 745 and Malaya Nanda Sethy v/s State of Orissa and Ors., 2022 SCC OnLine SC 684. In case there is any legal impediment, the same shall be communicated to petitioner within a short period. 6. It is made clear that this Court has not entered into merit of claim of petitioner regarding compassionate appointment. Order Date :- 8.7.2025 AK Digitally signed by :- AWADESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad