JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Sri Hemant Kumar Pandey, learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.

1A. The petitioner has approached this Court praying for the following relief:-

"(i) direct the Nayab Tehsildar, Jahangirganj, Tahsil-Alapur, District Ambedkar Nagar (opposite party no. 2) to decide the mutation Case No. T202004040402142 (Smt. Kamlesh Singh Vs. Smt. Anju Singh and others), under Section 34 U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 filed by the petitioner before the opposite party No. 2, which is pending before him within stipulated period."

2. This Court by means of order dated 19.05.2022 had passed the following order which reads as under :-

"Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. Notice on behalf of the respondents No.1 and 2 has been accepted by the office of Chief Standing Counsel.

The record indicates that the instant petition has been preferred seeking expeditious disposal of mutation case pending before the respondent No.2.

The record further indicates that the petitioner had approached this Court earlier by means of Writ Petition No.17492 (M/S) of 2021 which was dismissed as not pressed vide order dated 12.08.2021, a copy of which has been brought on record as Annexure No.3.

It is further stated by the petitioner that in furtherance of the liberty granted to the petitioner, the petitioner has moved an application before the respondent No.1 for expeditious disposal, a copy of which has been brought on record as Annexure No.4.

It is submitted that despite the said application being moved in the month of October, 2021, no orders have been passed on the said application.

Learned standing counsel shall seek complete and detailed instructions from the respondent No.1 as to how many such applications under Para-494, Chapter-XV of the Revenue Code Manual (Amendment) Regulation, 2016 have been received by the Board of Revenue and how many applications have been disposed off and the time taken for disposing the said applications and as on the date, how many applications are pending seeking expedition under the aforesaid Regulation.

Let the complete instructions be made available in proper tabulation within ten days from today.

List this matter again on 30.05.2022, as fresh."

3. On 30th May, 2022, on the request of learned Standing Counsel, the matter was taken up on 31.05.2022 and the learned Standing Counsel in pursuance of the order dated 19.05.2022 has provided the details as sought by the Court in its order dated 19.05.2022. The same is taken on record.

4. The petitioner has approached this Court seeking expeditious disposal of her mutation case pending before the Nayab Tehsildar, Jahangirganj, Tehsil Alapur, District Ambedkar Nagar.

5. It had been specifically averred in the petition that the petitioner had approached this Court by filing W.P. No. 17492 (MS) of 2021 (Smt. Kamlesh Vs. State of U.P. and others) and upon preliminary objection raised by the State-respondents, the petitioner was relegated to avail the alternate remedy of approaching the Board of Revenue by filing an application for expedition in terms of para 494 of the U.P. Revenue Court Manual (Amendment) Regulations, 2016.

6. It is also submitted that despite having moved the said application before the Board of Revenue in the month of October, 2021, yet the said application has not been decided, as a result, neither the application for expedition has been disposed of and in any case, the mutation case of which expedition is sought still remains to be decided, though, under the Rules framed namely U.P. Revenue Code Rules, 2016, the contested mutation cases are to be decided within a period of three months.

7. It is in the aforesaid circumstances, that the Court had called upon the learned Standing Counsel regarding the details and from the perusal of the aforesaid details and statistics so provided by the learned Standing Counsel that between January, 2019 till May, 2022, a total number of 298 applications under Para 494 of the Reven