HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - C No. - 33051 of 2025 Court No. - 6 HON'BLE PRAKASH PADIA, J. 1. The petitioner has preferred present writ petition inter-alia with the prayer to direct the respondent no.2-District Magistrate, Fatehpur to decide the representation/application dated 05.07.2023 filed for fire arm license 2. It is argued by counsel for the petitioner that aforesaid application is pending consideration before the respondent no.2 from last more than two years hence a direction be issued to decide the same expeditiously. 3. It is argued by Sri Sanjeev Singh, learned Additional Advocate General for the State of U.P. assisted by Sri Dharmendra Prasad Singh, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondent-State that respondent no.2-District Magistrate, Fatehpur will take a decision in the matter expeditiously and positively within four weeks from today. 4. 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 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Brajesh Kumar Solanki, Samrat Vikram Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Ashutosh Sharma .....Petitioner(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) grant of firearm license. 5. In this view of the matter, present petition is disposed of in terms of undertakings given by Sri Sanjeev Singh, learned Additional Advocate General for the State of U.P. (Prakash Padia,J.) September 19, 2025 Pramod Tripathi WRIC No. 33051 of 2025 2 Digitally signed by :- PRAMOD TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- PRAMOD TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad