Bombay High Court

SANTOSH SHIVLAL MUNEMANIKversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THR THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY AND OTHERS

Disposal: DISPOSED OFF

Holding

Respondent No.4 must forward the petitioner's application to Respondent No.3 within two weeks, and Respondent No.3 must decide it on its merits within four weeks.

Summary

Santosh Shivlal Munemanik filed a writ petition challenging the failure of Respondent No.4 to forward his application to the appropriate authority. The High Court examined whether Respondent No.4 was legally obliged to transmit the petitioner's proposal to Respondent No.3 and whether Respondent No.3 must decide the matter within a reasonable time. Finding that the dispute was purely procedural, the Court directed Respondent No.4 to forward the application within two weeks of receiving the order. It further ordered Respondent No.3 to consider and decide the application on its merits within four weeks thereafter. No substantive merits of the petition were adjudicated, and the petition was disposed of with these procedural directions.

Issues considered

Whether Respondent No.4 is bound to forward the petitioner's application to Respondent No.3
Whether Respondent No.3 must decide the forwarded application within a specified period

Subjects

writ petition
administrative law
direction
forwarding of application
time-bound decision
procedural compliance

Judgment

2026:BHC-AUG:43280-DB


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                           IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                       BENCH AT AURANGABAD

                                 31 WRIT PETITION NO.12260 OF 2026
                                     Santosh Shivlal Munemanik
                                              VERSUS
                                      The State of Maharashtra
                               Thr The Principal Secretary and Others
                                                 …..
                        Shri. Mudassir H. Shaikh, Advocate for the Petitioner
                         Mrs. S. S. Joshi, AGP for the Respondent – State.
                                                 …..
                                       CORAM : NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI &
                                               ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ.
                                       DATE : 22nd SEPTEMBER 2026
                P. C. :-

                .          Leave to correct the nomenclature of Respondent No.4
                forthwith.


                2.         Writ Petition is disposed of by directing Respondent No.4
                to forward the application/proposal of the Petitioner to
                Respondent No.3 within a period of two (2) weeks from the
                date of receipt of copy of this order, and Respondent No.3 shall
                consider and decide the same on its own merits and in
                accordance with law within a period of four (4) weeks
                thereafter.



                (ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J.)              (NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI, J.)


                GGP

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