Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:90418 Court No. - 33 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 17253 of 2025 Petitioner :- Bhagwati Singh Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Girish Pratap Singh,Manish Nath Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J. 1. The only prayer made by counsel for the petitioner is to direct the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Gorakhpur to pass appropriate orders on the application submitted by the petitioner for renewal of firearm license of the petitioner being Arms License No.7458, New No.7580, P.S. Shahpur, District Gorakhpur. 2. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that though a considerable time has already been lapsed but till date no final decision has been taken in the matter. 3. On the other hand, it is argued by learned Standing Counsel that the respondent No.2 will take a decision in the matter expeditiously. 4. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 5. Time and again such kind of matters are coming before this Court for deciding the application for grant of Firearm License which are pending before the District Magistrate concerned. The Arms Act and the Rules itself provide the timeline within which such applications are to be decided. However, the aforesaid timeline are not being honoured by the District Magistrate concerned and as a result of the same, flood of litigation are coming before this Court for seeking direction that the application for grant of fire arms license/renewal of arms license be decided in a time bound manner. The Court has passed various orders in such type of matters and pursuant to the decision taken by this Court, the Government has issued a Government Order dated 10.3.2025 directing all the District Magistrates to comply with the timelines provided for consideration of the application for grant of firearm license. 6. In the facts and circumstances, the petitioner is permitted to submit a fresh representation in this regard annexing all the necessary papers and documents, which were earlier duly supplied by him, before the respondent no.2 along-with certified copy of this order within a period of three weeks from today. If such a representation is made, the respondent no.2 is directed to pass appropriate order in accordance with law within a further period of two months in the light of Government Order dated 10.03.2025. 7. With the aforesaid observations, present writ petition is disposed of finally. Order Date :- 27.5.2025 Pramod Tripathi Digitally signed by :- PRAMOD TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad