Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:84113 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 7027 of 2025 Petitioner :- Smt. Rani Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Ravi Sahu Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Harshit Pandey Hon'ble Ajay Bhanot,J. The petitioner is the wife of the deceased employee. The deceased husband of the petitioner was working as a Safai Karamchari in the Nagar Nigam, Kanpur Nagar. He died in harness on 23.03.2021. According to the petitioner the Assured Career Progression (A.C.P.) benefit has not been disbursed to her. She has made a representation in this regard but to no avail. The only prayer made by Shri Ravi Sahu, learned counsel for the petitioner is that the representation of the petitioner may be decided within a stipulated period of time. Shri Syed Sanawar, learned counsel holding brief of Shri Harshit Pandey, learned counsel for the respondents submit that the matter requires determination of facts by the competent authority in light of applicable provisions of law in the first instance. However, they fairly contend that service benefit/claim is liable to be decided by the competent authority in a reasonable time frame. In wake of the aforesaid submissions and without going into the merits of the case, the respondent authority shall decide the representation of the petitioner regarding grant of Assured Career Progression (A.C.P.) in accordance with law within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order along with a fresh copy of the representation. With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition is finally disposed of. Order Date :- 20.5.2025 Vandit Digitally signed by :- VANDIT AGRAWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad