Court No. - 7
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 23067 of 2018 Petitioner :- C/M, Of Sri Dayanand Dev Swami Vidyalaya, Dalupur, Mainpuri Through Its Manager Ranbir Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Lokesh Kumar Dwivedi Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Raghvendra Pratap Singh
Hon'ble Saumitra Dayal Singh,J.
1. Heard Sri Lokesh Kumar Dwivedi, learned counsel for the petitioner; Sri Raghvendra Pratap Singh, learned counsel for the respondent no.4 and; learned Standing Counsel for the State- respondents.
2. The petitioner- Committee of Management claims to be a running duly recognised Junior High School. The petitioner further claims to be entitled to payment of grant-in-aid.
3. It is next submitted that the petitioner has filed a representation in this regard to the Secretary, Basic Education on 01.09.2018 which is stated to be still pending. The entitlement to the grant-in-aid has been made in view of the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of State of U.P. Vs. Pawan Kumar Dwivedi reported in 2014 (4) ESC 506 (SC).
4. No useful purpose would be served in keeping the present petition pending any further or calling for counter affidavit, the present writ petition is disposed of directing the first respondent--Secretary, Basic Education, Secretariat, Lucknow, to consider and decide the claim of the petitioner by a reasoned and speaking order in accordance with law expeditiously, preferably within a period of 3 months from the date of filing of certified copy of this order.
5. It is made clear that the Court has not considered the claim and contention of the petitioner on merits.
Order Date :- 27.10.2018 Abhilash