HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 16477 of 2026 Court No. - 32 HON'BLE DINESH PATHAK, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel representing State-respondents and perused the record on board. 2. This writ petition has been filed, inter alia, seeking the following relief: "i) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondent no.3 to pay G.P.F. amount to the wife (petitioner) on account of her husband's retirement in 2004 and his death in 2022 forthwith in the interest of justice." 3. Sri Abhishek Srivastava, learned counsel for the respondents No. 2 and 3 and Sri Purnendu Kumar Singh, learned counsel appearing for the respondents No. 4 and 5 and learned Standing Counsel representing State- respondent No. 1 have contended that the grievance of the present petitioner raised in the instant writ petition can be more appropriately redressed by the Electricity Engineer Distribution Division (First), Mahoba, District Mahoba (respondent No. 4), and they have no objection, in case, a direction is issued for expeditious disposal of a fresh representation to be moved by the petitioner within such stipulated period as may be directed by this Court. 4. In this conspectus, as above, no useful purpose would be served by keeping this matter pending. Therefore, this Court deems it appropriate to finally dispose of the present writ petition, without making any observation on the merits of the case, with liberty to the petitioner to move a fresh representation before the Electricity Engineer Distribution Division (First), Mahoba, District Mahoba (respondent No. 4), to ventilate his grievance, as averred in the present writ petition, within a period of two weeks from today, along with a certified copy of this order and a self attested copy of the present writ petition, and, in turn, he shall consider and decide the same in Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Virendra Kumar Counsel for Respondent(s) : Abhishek Srivastava, Baleshwar Chaturvedi, C.S.C. Vidya Devi .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) accordance with law expeditiously, preferably, within a period of two months from the date of production of such representation. 5. With the aforesaid observation, present writ petition is disposed of. October 7, 2026 vinay WRIA No. 16477 of 2026 2 (Dinesh Pathak,J.) Digitally signed by :- VINAY KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad