Bombay High Court

SANTAJI SHIVAJI SHELKEversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THR. G. P. AND ORS

Decided: 28 January 2026
Disposal: Allowed
Bench: A S GADKARI SHYAM C CHANDAK

Holding

The petition is allowed and disposed as the respondent’s undertaking resolves the petitioner’s grievance.

Summary

Santaji Shivaji Shelke filed Writ Petition No.1009 of 2026 before the Bombay High Court challenging a grievance against the State of Maharashtra and others. The petitioner had filed an application on 25 September 2025, and Respondent No.4 undertook to decide that application within six weeks of the hearing. The Court accepted this undertaking and held that the petitioner’s grievance was thereby resolved. Accordingly, the Court found that no further relief remained to be adjudicated. The petition was therefore allowed and disposed of.

Issues considered

Whether the petitioner’s grievance is deemed resolved by the respondent’s undertaking to decide the application within six weeks
Whether the writ petition should be allowed and disposed on the basis of that undertaking

Subjects

writ petition
civil appellate jurisdiction
disposal
respondent undertaking
Bombay High Court

Judgment

HEMANT
CHANDERSEN
SHIV
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HEMANT                                 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CHANDERSEN SHIV
Date: 2026.02.07                               CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
15:53:35 +0300

                                               WRIT PETITION NO.1009 OF 2026

                      Santaji Shivaji Shelke                    …..Petitioner
                            Vs.
                      The State of Maharashtra & Ors.           …..Respondents

                                        __________________________________________

                      Mr. Nilesh Wable, Advocate i/b Sumit Khaire for the Petitioner.
                      Smt. R. A. Salunkhe, AGP for the Respondent-State.
                                    __________________________________________

                                                          CORAM :      A. S. GADKARI AND
                                                                       SHYAM C. CHANDAK, JJ.
                                                            DATE :     28th JANUARY, 2026.


                      P.C.:-

                      1)               Learned AGP Smt. Salunkhe on instructions submitted that,

                      the Application dated 25th September, 2025 filed by the Petitioner will be

                      decided by Respondent No.4 within a period of six weeks from today. The

                      said statement is accepted.

                      2)               In view of above, the grievance of the Petitioner as prayed for

                      in the Petition is worked out and nothing further survives in the Petition, at

                      this stage.

                      3)               Petition is allowed and disposed off in the aforesaid terms.



                                (SHYAM C. CHANDAK, J.)                      (A.S. GADKARI, J.)




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