WRIT - A No. 13647 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 13647 of 2025 Sahab Lal Mishra .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Amar Singh Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 4 HON'BLE AJIT KUMAR, J. 1. Heard Shri Amar Singh Yadav, learned counsel for petitioner and and Shri P.K. Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution petitioner has prayed for a writ of mandamus to command the respondent to consider the claim of petitioner for promotion on the next higher post of Sub-Inspector as according to him many Head Constables of his batch have already been promoted as Sub-Inspector. 3. Learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel on the contrary submits that petitioner, in the first instance, should approach the authority concerned by making representation regarding his claim for promotion. According to learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel the competent authority in the matter is respondent No. 3. 4. In the given facts and circumstances this petition stands disposed of with direction to the petitioner to make representation befor