SPECIAL APPEAL No. 419 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 419 of 2025 Vinod Kumar Misra .....Appellant(s) Versus Vice Chancellor Lucknow University, Lucknow And 5 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Lalta Prasad Misra, Tarun Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : Savitra Vardhan Singh Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE INDRAJEET SHUKLA, J. 1. Heard. 2. This is a special appeal challenging the order dated 29.10.2025 passed by learned Single Judge in Writ-A No.6212 of 1999 [Vinod Kumar Misra vs. Vice-Chancellor Lucknow University, Lucknow And 5 Others] by which two applications one for condoning the delay and laches in filing the application for recall of an order dated 11.09.2017 and the other application for recall of the said order have been dismissed on the ground of lack of due diligence on the part of the appellant-petitioner in pursuing his case. 3. The facts before us are that the appellant had engaged Sri Parmanand Sharma and Sri Ved Prakash Shukla, Advocates for arguing the said writ petition and thereafter, he had engaged Sri Nirankar Nath Jaiswal and Sri Prashant Jaiswal, Advocates for the same purpose. Sri N.N. Jaiswal being the senior most