SPECIAL APPEAL No. 442 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 442 of 2025 State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Minority Welfare Lko And 2 Others .....Appellant(s) Versus Shesh Nath Pandey .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : C.S.C. Counsel for Respondent(s) : Alok Kumar Pandey Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE ABDHESH KUMAR CHAUDHARY, J. 1. Heard Shri Sudeep Kumar, learned Additional Advocate General, assisted by Shri Shailendra Kumar Singh, learned Chief Standing Counsel for the State-appellants and Shri Gaurav Mehrotra, learned Senior Advocate, assisted by Shri Alok Kumar Pandey, learned counsel appearing for the respondent. 2. This Special Appeal has been filed by the appellants under Chapter VIII Rule 5 of the Allahabad High Court Rules, 1952 challenging the Judgment and order dated 10.12.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ-A No. 14020 of 2025 (Shesh Nath Pandey vs. State of U.P. and others). 3. After arguing the appeal at length, on being confronted with certain queries, as regards the Rules or the Government order where the respondent-petitioner may be liable to approve or disapprove any proposal for VRS and also the fact that no contr