Bombay High Court
TUKARAM PANDITRAO DANDGEversusSMT V RADHA
- Disposal
- DISPOSED OFF
Holding
The Court disposed of the contempt petition on the basis of the respondents' undertaking to fix the revised pay.
Summary
The petitioners filed a contempt petition alleging that the respondents had not fixed their revised pay as ordered. Respondent No.3 produced a communication dated 13.01.2026 stating that the revised pay, including advance increment, would be fixed under the 6th and 7th Pay Commissions and that the process would take four to five months. The communication was marked as an undertaking to the Court. The Court accepted this undertaking as sufficient compliance and therefore disposed of the contempt petition without further proceedings. No substantive order on the payment itself was made, as the matter was left to the ongoing pay‑fixation process.
Issues considered
- Whether the respondents are in contempt for failing to fix the petitioners' revised pay as ordered
Subjects
- contempt
- revised pay
- pay commission
- court undertaking
- service matters
Judgment
2026:BHC-AUG:2207-DB
1 972-cp-876-2025.odt
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY,
BENCH AT AURANGABAD
972 CONT. PETITION NO. 876 OF 2025
IN CP/175/2022
Tukaram Panditrao Dandge
VERSUS
Smt V. Radha
...
Mr. Shivkumar K. Mathpati, Advocate for the Petitioner
Mr. S. P. Sonpawale, AGP for Respondents/State
Mr. Madhav P. Gude, Advocate for Respondent No.3
...
CORAM : SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE AND
ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ.
DATED : JANUARY 17, 2026
P.C.:
1. Learned Counsel for Respondent No.3 produced on record the
communication dated 13.01.2026 mentioning that all the 15 petitioners
in the contempt petition will be getting revised pay inclusive of advance
increment, since the order to that effect is already passed and at
present the process of pay fixation is in progress. It is further mentioned
that once the process of pay fixation is carried out then the same will be
presented to the Account General, Nagpur.
2. Further as per the annexures in the said communication one Mr.
Tukaram Panditrao Dandge is also getting revised pay as per 6 th and 7th
pay commission.
Narwade/
2 972-cp-876-2025.odt
3. According to the learned Counsel for Respondent No.3, for
completion of this entire process and actual payment of the revised pay
as per 6th pay commission will take 4-5 months. The said
communication is taken on record and marked ‘X’ for identification and
it is treated as an undertaking to this Court.
4. Therefore, in view of the aforesaid undertaking, we dispose of
the present contempt petition.
[ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J.] [SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE, J.]
Narwade/
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