Allahabad High Court
SMT. INDIRA GUPTAversusSTATE OF U.P. AND 3 OTHERS
- Decided
Holding
The writ petition is dismissed as not pressed.
Summary
The petitioner, Smt. Indira Gupta, filed a writ petition seeking a mandamus directing the State of U.P. and others to execute a sale deed for a plot allotted to her. During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsel informed the court that the petitioner no longer wished to pursue the petition. The State respondents, represented by Additional Chief Standing Counsel, expressed no objection to the withdrawal. The court considered the petition to be unpressed and therefore dismissed it. No substantive merits of the mandamus claim were examined.
Issues considered
- Whether the writ petition should be dismissed on the ground that it is not pressed after the petitioner withdraws the relief sought
Subjects
- writ petition
- mandamus
- withdrawal
- not pressed
- dismissal
Judgment
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
WRIT - C No. - 12356 of 2025
Smt. Indira Gupta
.....Petitioner(s)
Versus
State Of U.P. And 3 Others
.....Respondent(s)
Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Santosh Yadav
Counsel for Respondent(s) : J. N. Maurya, Anuj Pratap Singh,
C.S.C.
Court No. - 21
HON'BLE MAHESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI, J.
HON'BLE KUNAL RAVI SINGH, J.
1. Heard Shri Sarvesh Yadav holding brief of Shri Santosh Yadav,
learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Devesh Vikram, learned
Additional Chief Standing Counsel appearing for the State-respondents.
2. The instant writ petition has been preferred praying inter alia for the
following relief:
"(a) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus
commanding the Respondents to execute to execute sale deed in favour of
the petitioner after demarcating and developing Plot No. B/D-144, Sector
C-1, Ansal East End, Tronica City, Ghaziabad pursuant to Allotment
letter dated 8.01.2008, within stipulated time.
(b) Issue any other order or direction as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit
and proper in the circumstances of the case.
(c) Award the cost of Originalpetition to the petitioner."
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner on the instruction states that the
petitioner does not want to press the writ petition and the same may be
dismissed as not pressed.
4. Shri Devesh Vikram, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for
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the State-respondents has no objection to the aforesaid request of the
learned counsel for the petitioner.
5. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as not pressed.
(Kunal Ravi Singh,J.) (Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.)
February 26, 2026
NLY
Digitally signed by :-
NAND LAL YADAV
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
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