HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 31135 of 2025 Court No. - 33 HON'BLE PRAKASH PADIA, J. 1. The petitioner has preferred the present petition inter alia with the prayer to direct the respondent no.2 to issue the firearm license to the petitioner. 2. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has filed an application on 09.05.2025 for grant of fire arm license before the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Ghaziabad, but till date no final decision has been taken in the matter. 3. On the other hand, it is argued by learned Standing Counsel that the respondent No.2 will take a decision in the matter expeditiously. 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Shyam Singh Somvanshi Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Pukhraj .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) 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 firearm license. 6. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the present petition is disposed of directing the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Ghaziabad to decide the aforesaid application most expeditiously and preferably within a period of four weeks from today. 7. In case the decision has already been taken by the District Magistrate, Ghaziabad he will communicate the same to the petitioner forthwith. September 9, 2025 S.K. WRIC No. 31135 of 2025 2 (Prakash Padia,J.) Digitally signed by :- SWEETY KANOJIA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad