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Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994

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DILIP MANOHAR KHADTAREversusTHE SECRETARY-RAYAT SHIKSHAN SANSTHA and ORS.

Disposed Off

The petitioner, a lecturer, was transferred to an unaided college where he was repeatedly denied permission to join duty and was compelled to sign the muster roll forcibly. After a four‑year delay, a departmental inquiry found him guilty of misconduct and he was terminated on 27‑03‑2001. He appealed …

DR. PRAVEEN PARVEZ SAYYEDversusSTATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS

Allowed

Dr. Parveen Parvez Sayyed, a senior law officer at Savitribai Phule Pune University, challenged two State Government letters that withdrew pay‑scale protection for her earlier service as a Law Officer (1997‑2010). She argued that her appointment, though funded by university development funds, was …

SUDARSHANA SUHAS PATHAKversusSECRETARY, GOKHALE EDUCATION SOCIETY AND ORS.

Dismissed

Mrs. Sudarshana Suhas Pathak, a lecturer employed by Gokhale Education Society colleges, was terminated in 1998 and later faced conversion of her appointment to a clock‑hour basis. She challenged the termination and subsequent appointment of a Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidate to her post through …

DR. MRS. SUMAN V. JAINversusMARWADI SAMMELAN THROUGH ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS

2024 INSC 127Appeal(s) allowed

Dr. Suman V. Jain, a permanent principal of a college run by Marwadi Sammelan Trust, submitted a prospective resignation on 25 March 2003 effective from 24 September 2003. The Trust accepted the resignation on 8 April 2003, calling it "final, binding and irrevocable," and later rejected her request …

SECRETARY MAHATAMA GANDHI MISSION & ANOTHERversusBHARTIYA KAMGAR SENA & OTHERS

2017 INSC 27Dismissed

The Supreme Court considered whether the Maharashtra Government could, under the Maharashtra Universities Act, extend the Sixth Pay Commission pay scales to non‑teaching staff of unaided engineering colleges affiliated to state universities. The appellants, two unaided colleges, argued that the 2009 …

STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERSversusNOWROSJEE WADIA COLLEGE AND OTHERS

2013 INSC 63Appeal(s) allowed

Teachers in colleges affiliated to Pune University were paid leave encashment under university statutes 424(3) and 424(C) framed under the Poona University Act, 1974. After the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994 repealed the 1974 Act, the State of Maharashtra directed universities to discontinue the …

KHANDESH COLLEGE EDUCATION SOCIETY, JALGAON &ANR.versusARJUN HARI NARKHEDE & ORS.

2011 INSC 456Disposed off

The petitioners, Khandesh College Education Society, owned a private aided college where fourteen lecturers/demonstrators (respondents) retired without receiving encashment of their unutilized earned leave. The respondents claimed entitlement to such leave and its encashment under Statutes 424(3) …

RAMESH GAJENDRA JADHAVversusSECRETARY, LATE S.G.S.P. MANDAL & ORS.

2010 INSC 417Dismissed

The appellant, Ramesh Gajendra Jadhav, was appointed as a regular lecturer of Geography in a college based on an advertisement that described the vacancy as a part‑time post in the open category. Due to a clerical error, the university later approved the post as a full‑time position reserved for …

ANAND SHARADCHANDRA OKAversusUNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI & ORS.

2008 INSC 133Dismissed

The petitioner, a graduate of the University of Mumbai who also held an LL.M., filed a writ petition seeking inclusion of his name in the electoral roll for Senate elections, arguing that the term “Graduate of the University” under the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994 should include persons who …

STATE OF MAHARASHTRAversusSANT DNYANESHWAR SHIKSHAN SHASTRA MAHAVIDYALAYA AND ORS.

2006 INSC 190Dismissed

The petitioners, a public trust seeking to start a B.Ed. college, obtained recognition from the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993, but the Maharashtra Government refused to issue a No‑Objection Certificate (NOC) based on a policy …