Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:125334-DB Court No. - 39 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 24608 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ashish Sahni Respondent :- State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rahul Yadav,Shashi Kant Upadhyay Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Arindam Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J. Heard Sri Shashi Kant Upadhyay, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Devendra Kumar Tiwari, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the State respondents. The petitioner is aggrieved by rejection of his application for issuance of character certificate as indicated on the website status of the application, appended as Annexure-5 to the writ petition. Counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the rejection order is cursory with no specific reason having been assigned. Counsel for the State respondents has not been able to dispute the aforestated position. Having regard to the aforesaid, since the rejection is without assigning any reason the same cannot be sustained. The rejection is set aside. The respondent no.3, the competent authority in this regard would be expected to deal with the application of the petitioner for issuance of the character certificate and pass a reasoned order within a period of four weeks from submission/presentation of a certified copy of this order. The writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 29.7.2025/Arun K. Singh [Arindam Sinha, J.] [Dr. Y.K. Srivastava, J.] Digitally signed by :- ARUN KUMAR SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ARUN KUMAR SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad