WRIT - A No. 18756 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 18756 of 2025 Sharad Chandra Misra .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Prashant Mishra, Siddharth Khare, Sr. Advocate Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 33 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Ashok Khare, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Prashant Mishra, learned counsel for the writ petitioner and Sri Pramod Kumar Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. Sri P.K. Srivastava, learned Additional CSC has made a statement at bar that he is possessed with the instructions and he is in a position to argue the matter and he does not propose to file any affidavit, the writ petition be decided on the basis of the documents available on record. With the consent of the parties, the writ petition is being decided at the fresh stage. 3. The case of the writ petitioner is that he was appointed on the post of Commercial Tax Officer on 18.01.2016 and the said post stood re- designated as State Tax Officer and on 29.11.2023, the petitioner was granted promotion on the post of Assistant Commissioner, State Tax. That while the writ pet