Markandey Pratap Shahi v. State of U.P. through Its Additional Chief Secretary, Higher Education and 5 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court, WRIT - A No. 14050 of 2025, decided September 17, 2025, Chandra Dhari Singh, J. Subsistence allowance arrears; Associate Professor; B.R.D. Post Graduate College, Deoria; pension and arrears of salary after pay fixation; State Government pay scale; higher education; innocuous prayer; fresh representation; Director of Higher Education Officer, U.P., Prayagraj; 10 days to file; six weeks to decide; disposed of without entering merits; petitioner Markandey Pratap Shahi; State of U.P.; counsel Ramesh Chandra Dwivedi; standing counsel Santosh Kumar.
What did the court decide?
No substantive relief on merits; the petitioner's innocuous prayer was allowed — liberty to file a fresh representation before respondent no.2 (Director of Higher Education Officer, U.P., Prayagraj) within 10 days, with a direction to respondent no.2 to decide it in accordance with law, expeditiously, preferably within six weeks of receipt.