IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Peition (M/S) No. 1807 of 2009 Charan Jeet Singh Son of Sri Karnail Singh, Resident of Village- Chitranjanpur, Police Station- Dineshpur, Tehsil Gadarpur, District Udham Singh Nagar. … Petitioner. Versus 1. State of Uttarakhand, through District Magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar. 2. Tehsildar, Tehsil Gadarpur, District Udham Singh Nagar. 3. Axis Bank through Branch Manager, Nainital Road, Rudrapur, District Udham Singh Nagar. … Respondents. Sri Pratiroop Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri K.P.Upadhyay, learned Addl. C.S.C. for the State-respondents no. 1 & 2. Date October 27, 2009. Hon’ble B.S.Verma, J. This writ petition has been filed to issue a writ of certiorari quashing the impugned recovery citation dated 17-6-2009 (Annexure No. 3 to the writ petition). Further prayer has also been made for directing the respondents to grant one-year time to deposit the amount in question in fixed instalments and to permit the petitioner to pay the loan amount in instalments. According to the petitioner, he took a loan of Rs. 2,70,000/- sanctioned by the UTI Bank in May 2007, for setting up dairy business, which was payable in monthly instalment of Rs. 3,000/- within a period of three years. The petitioner lateron fell seriously ill of Chesic hepatitis C infection in December 2008 and he suffered heavy loss in the dairy business. Due to the failure of the petitioner to repay the loan instalment, recovery citation for recovery of Rs. 3,26,578/- along with interest was issued against the petitioner vide Annexure No.3 to the writ petition. According to the petitioner, he is ready and willing to repay the entire outstanding amount under the recovery citation in easy instalments. 2 I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondent nos. 1 and 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has contended that the petitioner is ready to pay the amount in question in instalments. It appears that a request was made by the respondent no. 3 Bank to respondent nos. 1 and 2 for recovery of the outstanding loan amount plus interest from the petitioner as arrears of land revenue. Consequently, the impugned recovery citation was issued by the respondent no.2 against the petitioner. In the facts and circumstances of the case, it will be in the fitness of things to direct the petitioner to repay entire outstanding amount of loan along with recovery charges, in four equal quarterly instalments. Accordingly, the petitioner is directed to pay the entire outstanding amount of loan along with recovery charges in four equal quarterly instalments before the Recovery Officer-respondent no.2. The first quarterly instalment shall fall due on 15th day of December 2009 and the subsequent instalments shall fall due after every three months i.e. on 15-3-2010, 15-6-2010 and 15-9-2010. It is made clear that in case of default in payment of any of the instalment, as directed above, the respondents would be at liberty to recover the entire outstanding amount of loan from the petitioner in lump-sum. Accordingly, the impugned recovery citation (Annexure No.3) shall not be given effect to by the respondents. With the above observations, the writ petition is disposed of finally. ( B.S.Verma, J.) RCP 3