Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:103698 Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 7153 of 2025 Petitioner :- Chandra Prakash Srivastav Respondent :- State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Kaustubh Tripathi,Saurabh Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Chandra Dhari Singh,J. 1. The instant writ petition has been filed seeking for the following relief:- " (I) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondent no.2 (Director of Education, Higher Education) to consider and decide the application of the petitioner for appointment on compassionate grounds within a stipulated period of time." 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner without entering into the merits of the case made innocuous prayer that his representation is pending before respondent no.2 may be directed to be decided in time bound manner. 3. Sri Santosh Kumar, 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 petitioner. 4. Heard Sri Prabhakar Awasthi holding brief of Sri Saurabh Tripathi, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Sri Santosh Kumar, learned Standing Counsel and perused the contents made in the writ petition. 5. Without entering into merits of the case, I am inclined to allow the innocuous prayer made by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner as no objection made by learned Standing Counsel. Learned counsel for the petitioner is provided to file a fresh detailed representation along with the present writ petition and certified copy of this order before respondent no.2 Director of Education (Higher Education), Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow within 10 days. After receiving the said representation, the respondent no.2 is directed to decide the said representation in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of the said representation. 6. With the aforesaid directions/observations, the present writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 3.7.2025/AKT (Chandra Dhari Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad