Prem Shanker Srivastava v. State of U.P. Thru Secreatry Secondary Education and 8 Ors.
Dismissal for want of prosecution – Writ petition (WRIT
Case brief
What is this about?
Short non-prosecution dismissal order of the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Court No. 30) in WRIT - A No. 781 of 2005, decided on 9.1.2024 by Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla, J. (Neutral Citation 2024:AHC-LKO:2202). Petitioner: Prem Shanker Srivastava (Counsel: Onkar Singh). Respondents: State of U.P. through Secretary, Secondary Education and 8 others (Counsel: C S C, O P M Tripathi, Ramesh Pandey, V.S.Tripathi, Vijay Kr Bajpai, Y S Tripathi, Yogita Chandra). The petition, pending since 2005, was dismissed for want of prosecution as none appeared for the petitioner; interim order, if any, vacated. Useful for practitioners tracking: dismissal for default / non-prosecution of writ petitions, vacation of interim orders on dismissal, fate of long-pending 2005 writ matters. No statutes, precedents, issues, or monetary amounts appear in the order.
What did the court decide?
On the case being called out after revision of the list, none appeared on behalf of the petitioner to press the writ petition, while learned State Counsel was present.