WRIT - A No. 231 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 231 of 2026 Jagannath .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Amar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 33 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Amar Singh, learned counsel for the writ petitioner and Sri Pramod Kumar Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. The case of the writ petitioner is that he was appointed on the post of Lekhpal on 05.10.1990 and he retired on 31.07.2025, a notice came to be issued on 16.10.2025 for recovering excess payment amounting to Rs. 03,56,766/-, the writ petitioner tendered his reply on 12.11.2025 which came to be rejected on 30.12.2025. 3. Questioning the said order, the present writ petition has been preferred. 4. Learned counsel for the writ petitioner submits that the order impugned cannot be sustained as the same is cryptic non speaking and does not deal with the contention raised by the writ petitioner in his objection dated 12.11.2025. 5. Learned Standing Counsel submits that it is always for the employer to make consequent recovery, however, from the order itself it is not forthcomi