Court No. - 42
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 23411 of 2021 Petitioner :- Jagarnath Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ram Prakash Sharma,Amar Nath Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel appearing for the State respondents.
Present petition has been filed with a prayer that the respondent no. 2 be directed to decide Case No. 2039 (Computerized No. T200417650200017) within stipulated period.
It is unfortunate to note that the mutation proceedings are pending since 1993.
It has been stated that the petitioner is aged about 87 years.
In the facts and circumstances of the case, the present petition is finally disposed of with the direction to the respondent no. 2-Tehsildar, Khalilabad, District Sant Kabir Nagar to expedite the hearing of the aforesaid case and decide the same, in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of three months from the date of production of self attested copy of this order before him, which may be verified from the official website of this Court provided there is no other legal impediment, lawyers are not abstaining from work and functioning of the court is not affected due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
It is also provided that in case the parties appear in person before the authority concerned, the authority concerned shall proceed to pass order in accordance with law.
A reference may also be made to the judgments of this Court in the cases of Chandra Bali vs. Additional Commissioner and others 2012 (4) ADJ 13 and Radha Devi vs. State of U.P. and others 2016 (6) ADJ 753 wherein directions for time bound disposal of such cases have been given and provisions of U.P. Janhit Guarantee Adhiniyam, 2011 have been considered.
With the aforesaid observations/ directions, the present petition is finally disposed of.
Order Date :- 21.9.2021 Lalit Shukla