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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:117042 Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 9809 of 2025 Petitioner :- Rajesh Kumar Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Bhanu Pratap Singh,Suresh Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Rakesh Kumar Hon'ble Chandra Dhari Singh,J.
1. The instant writ petition has been filed seeking the following main prayer:-
"(i) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing to the respondent authority to pay minimum pay scale (according to the 7th pay commission) as has been passed in similarly situated bunch of writ petition no.44333 of 2017 (Rajendra Prasad Pandey and others Vs. State of U.P. and others) dated 19.04.2018 which is approved in Special Appeal No. 435 of 2018 (Chandra Shekhar Azad Agricultural and Technological University and 2 others Vs. Rajendra Prasad Pandey and others) dated 12.07.2018 as well as order dated 21.11.2024 passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Special Leave to Appeal (c) No.250 of 2019. ii Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the Respondent Authorities to decide the representation dated 26.06.2025 of the petitioner expeditiously, which is pending before them and yet has not been decided till. Date."
2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner without entering into merits of the case, made innocuous prayer that he may be permitted to file fresh representation before respondent no.4 and a direction may be issued to him to decide the same in time bound manner.
3. Sri Rakesh Kumar, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent nos.2 to 4 vehemently opposed the writ petition on merit, but has not opposed the prayer as made by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner.
4. Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner,
learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent nos.2 to 4 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 on behalf of learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no.2 to 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners is directed to file a fresh representation along with present writ petition as well as certified copy of this order before respondent no.4, Sampatti Evam Administrative Officer, Chandra Shekhar Azad Agricultural and Technological University Campus, Kanpur Nagar within 10 days from today. After receiving the said representation, respondent no.4 is directed to decide the said representation in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of eight weeks from the date of receiving of the said representation.
6. With the aforesaid directions/observations, the present writ petition is disposed of.
Order Date :- 18.7.2025 Radhika (Chandra Dhari Singh, J.) Digitally signed by :- RADHIKA VISHWAKARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad