Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:106689-DB Court No. - 39 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 20927 of 2025 Petitioner :- Mukesh Yadav Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vinay Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Arindam Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J. Mr. Vinay Kumar Singh, learned advocate, appears on behalf of petitioner and submits, his client works in the airport as a painter. For continuity to work his client has to furnish periodically, character certificate. Respondent no.2 (District Magistrate) has omitted to issue character certificate purportedly on basis of NCR no. 27/11 dated 19th July, 2011 under section 323/504/506 Indian Penal Code, 1860. Complainant is his client's neighbour. It is a petty issue. He seeks direction upon said respondent. Ms. Subhra Singh, learned advocate, Standing Counsel appears on behalf of State and submits, a criminal case is pending. Moreover, petitioner has not applied in proper format. On query, Mr. Singh draws attention to character certificate dated 8th November, 2022 issued by the District Magistrate. We have not been told of any other incident involving petitioner as happened since after 8th February, 2022 and at present. In the circumstances, there is no reason why petitioner should not again be issued the character certificate. Petitioner will apply for his character certificate clearly stating the reason for its necessity. He will enclose certified copy of this order along with copy of his earlier character certificate and communicate same to respondent no.2. Verification of application should be made within three weeks of the communication. Said respondent, upon verification of the application, if does not find any reason other than pendency of NCR no. 27/11, will proceed to grant character certificate. In event, the character certificate application is to be rejected, reason therefor be informed to petitioner within the period. We make it clear, if in the meantime, the criminal case resulted in conviction, petitioner will not be entitled to the certificate without serving the sentence or having it set aside. The writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 7.7.2025 Imroz (Arindam Sinha, J.) (Dr. Y. K. Srivastava, J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD IMROZ KHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad