Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:135493 Court No. - 33 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 26872 of 2025 Petitioner :- Daljeet Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Kunwar Mayank Singh,Shardool Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J. 1. The petitioner has preferred present petition with the prayer to direct the Licensing Authority to decide the application dated 28.04.2025 submitted by the petitioner for grant of Firearm License to the petitioner. 2. It is stated in the writ petition that father of the petitioner namely late Sri Dharadhar Singh having a fire-arm license died on 16.10.2019, thereafter aforesaid application was filed. It is argued that considerable time has already been lapsed but till date no final decision has been taken in the matter. 3. Learned Standing Counsel placed before this Court the instructions dated 06.08.2025 under signature of Licensing Authority. It is stated in paragraph-5 of the aforesaid instructions that matter is under consideration and as soon as necessary reports be received the necessary order will be passed. 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 of the case, the present petition is disposed of directing the Licensing Authority to decide the aforesaid application in the light of Government Order dated 10.03.2025 most expeditiously and preferably within a period of three months from the date of production of certified copy of this order unless there is no legal impediment. 7. In case the decision has already been taken by the Licensing Authority on the aforesaid application, the same will be communicated to the petitioner forthwith. Order Date :- 11.8.2025 Pramod Tripathi Digitally signed by :- PRAMOD TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad