WRIT - A No. 5735 of 2025 at Allahabad

AFR Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:133368. Judgment Reserved on 28.7.2025 Delivered on 7.8.2025. Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 5735 of 2025 Petitioner :- Yogesh Kumar Sharma Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pradeep Kumar Upadhyay,Sharad Rastogi,Sr. Advocate Counsel for Respondent :- Aditya Bhushan Singhal,C.S.C.,Suresh Singh Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J. 1. Heard Sri Ashok Khare,learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Pradeep Kumar Upadhyay, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri M.C.Chaturvedi, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri Aditya Bhushan Singhal, learned counsel for the respondents. 2. Petitioner was initially appointed as Junior Engineer (Civil) in 1984 in U.P Jal Nigam. 3. Petitioner was promoted as Assistant Engineer in the year 2003 and was accommodated as Executive Engineer in April 2016.Later on, he was accorded promotion on the post of Superintending Engineer on 3.3.2023 and he retired on 30.4.2023 as Superintending Engineer. 4. On 30.6.2024, an occurrence took place and a recently constructed water tank at Krishna Vihar, Colony, Mathura having a capacity of 2500 Litres fell down, which resulted into deat