JUDGMENT :

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned standing counsel.

2. Personal affidavit dated 25.2.2022 of Sri Pradyumn Tripathi, Additional Director General, DGGI, Meerut Zonal Unit, Meerut has been filed today, which contains 12 paragraphs and all the 12 paragraphs have been sworn as under:

''I, the deponent above named, do hereby swear that the contents of paragraphs Nos. 1-12 of this affidavit are true to my personal knowledge and are based on perusal of records; which all I believe to be true that no part of it is false and nothing material has been concealed in it.''

3. Rule 12 of Chapter IV of the Allahabad High Court Rules provides that how an affidavit shall be sworn by the deponent. For ready reference Rule 12 of Chapter IV of the Allahabad High Court Rules, is reproduced below:

''12. Facts to be within the deponent's knowledge or source to be stated-Except on interlocutory applications, an affidavit shall be confined to such facts as the deponent is able of his own knowledge to prove.

On an interlocutory application when a particular fact is not within the deponent's own knowledge, but is based on his belief or information received from others which he b