Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:134198 Court No. - 32 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 11308 of 2025 Petitioner :- Dr. Gauri Shanker Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Durga Singh,Vikram Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. 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 the respondents to grant the petitioner one notional increment for the period from 01st July to 30th June for purposes of pension and pensionary benefits and accordingly re-fix their pension and other pensionary benefits and pay the arrears along with admissible interest thereupon." 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of petitioner without entering into merits of the case, made innocuous prayer that the petitioner 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. Learned Standing counsel appearing on behalf of State- respondents 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 and Sri Santosh Kumar, learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of the State-respondents 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 Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of State-respondents. The petitioner is directed to file a fresh representation along with the copy of the present writ petition as well as certified copy of this order before respondent no.4, Director, Higher Education, State of Uttar Pradesh, Prayagraj within 10 days from today. After receiving the said representation, respondent no.4 is directed to decide the said representation by passing a reasoned order in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receiving of the said representation. 6. With the aforesaid directions/observations, the present writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 7.8.2025 Radhika (Chandra Dhari Singh, J.) Digitally signed by :- RADHIKA VISHWAKARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad