Naresh Kumar Sood and Others v. Union of India and Others

“6. Therefore, keeping in view the totality of the circumstances and the facts, we dispose of this O.A. with a direction to the competent authority amongst the respondents to decide the pending representations of the applicants with respect to the subject of this O.A. in accordance with rules and instructions, as expeditiously as possible, in no case later than 12 weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In case the decision has already been taken prior to this date, the same shall be revisited in the light of these orders. 7. Since, we are not certain whether all the applicants have preferred such a representation or not, we offer a liberty of two weeks to the applicants to prefer a fresh/ supplementary/ additional representation in this regard and in such event the competent authority shall decide the issue within a period of 12 weeks thereafter. 8. We would like to emphasise that barring the limited observations made hereinabove we have neither examined nor commented upon the merits of the claim of the applicants.”