SPECIAL APPEAL DEFECTIVE No. 462 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL DEFECTIVE No. - 462 of 2025 State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Secondary Education Lko. And 3 Others .....Appellant(s) Versus Manohar Singh .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : C.S.C. Counsel for Respondent(s) : Suman Pandey Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE RAJEEV BHARTI, J. Order on Delay Condonation Application 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. We have perused the affidavit filed in support of the application for condonation of delay. 3. The cause shown therein is sufficient. 4. The delay is only of 69 days which has been sufficiently explained. 5. Accordingly, we condone the delay. Order on Appeal 6. As regards the order impugned in the appeal, it has been passed in terms of another interim order passed in Writ-A No. 4513 of 2025 (Shailendra Kumar Tandon vs. State of U.P. & others). Against the said order passed in the case of Shailendra Kumar Tandon, the State filed an appeal bearing Special Appeal No. 340 of 2025 which has already been allowed on 04.11.2025 in the following terms:- SPLAD No. 462 of 2025 2 "5. We have perused the U.P. Retirement Benefit Rules, 1961 which also deals wi