WRIT - A No. 1175 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 1175 of 2026 Baharul Haque .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Mujib Ahmad Siddiqui, Mushir Ahmad Siddiqui Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Siddharth Singhal Court No. - 33 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Mujib Ahmad Siddiqui, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, learned Standing Counsel as well as Sri Siddharth Singhal for the Commission. 2. Present petition has been preferred for a direction to the third respondent, Commissioner, Rural Development Department, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow to fill up the remaining vacant posts, which remained unfilled due to non- availability of the candidates of Ex-Servicemen on the post of Village Development Officer pursuant to the Advertisement no.03/Examination/2016. 3. Sri Siddharth Singhal, who appears for the Commission has made a statement at Bar that already selections for the year 2016 has been concluded in the year 2020. 4. On a pointed query being raised to the learned counsel for the writ petitioner as to what prevented the writ petitioner for not approaching the Court. The learned couns