{"id":39988,"date":"2002-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-sheela-devi-vs-state-of-u-p-and-ors-on-3-december-2002"},"modified":"2018-06-08T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:35:46","slug":"smt-sheela-devi-vs-state-of-u-p-and-ors-on-3-december-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-sheela-devi-vs-state-of-u-p-and-ors-on-3-december-2002","title":{"rendered":"Smt. Sheela Devi vs State Of U.P. And Ors. on 3 December, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Smt. Sheela Devi vs State Of U.P. And Ors. on 3 December, 2002<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2003 (1) AWC 272<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: A Kumar<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: A Kumar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anjani Kumar, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Petitioner by means of this writ petition has sought for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent No. 2 to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 3.8.2002, addressed to Ram Veer Upadhyaya, Energy Minister, U. P. Government pursuant to the direction dated 13.10.2002. Issued by the said Minister. The said Minister issued a direction to appoint the petitioner on a particular post. Needless to say that this will be an appointment contrary to the rules. Petitioner has sought for a writ of mandamus. A mandamus can only be issued if the petitioner has an enforceable right and respondents are under legal obligation. None of the two ingredients are there for issuance of mandamus.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. In this view of the matter, no relief can be granted to the petitioner. The petition is dismissed being devoid of any merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Smt. Sheela Devi vs State Of U.P. And Ors. on 3 December, 2002 Equivalent citations: 2003 (1) AWC 272 Author: A Kumar Bench: A Kumar JUDGMENT Anjani Kumar, J. 1. Petitioner by means of this writ petition has sought for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent No. 2 to consider the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smt. Sheela Devi vs State Of U.P. 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