HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 34196 of 2025 Court No. - 6 HON'BLE PRAKASH PADIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the respondent-State and perused the records. 2. The application for grant of fire-arm dated 23.07.2025 is pending consideration before the respondent no.2 namely District Magistrate, Jaunpur/respondent No.2 hence present writ petition. 3. It is argued by counsel for the petitioner that as per Rule 13 and 14 of the Arms Rules, 2016, time limit has been prescribed for grant of license and as per Rule 13 such kind of application should be disposed of within a period of 60 days from the date of receipt of the police report. As per Rule 14, time limit is prescribed for police report for the grant of licenses. It is under Rule-14 that the police report should be submitted within a period of 30 days from the date of submission of application. It is further argued that the aforesaid period has already lapsed but till date no decision has been taken by the respondent no.2 hence present writ petition. 4. On the other hand, it is argued by learned Standing Counsel that the respondent No.2 will take a decision in the matter expeditiously. 5. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 6. 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Ashok Kumar Singh, Pratibha Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Shivam Singh .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) 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. 7. In the facts and circumstances of the case, the present petition is disposed of directing the respondent No.2/District Magistrate, Jaunpur to decide the aforesaid application in the light of Government Order dated 10.03.2025 most expeditiously and preferably within a period of six weeks from the date of production of certified copy of this order unless there is no legal impediment. September 25, 2025 saqlain WRIC No. 34196 of 2025 2 (Prakash Padia,J.) Digitally signed by :- SYED MOHAMMAD SAQLAIN HAIDER High Court of Judicature at Allahabad