Bombay High Court

ANIL LAXMANRAO JADHAVversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH SECRETARY REVENUE AND FOREST DEPT AND ANOTHER

Disposal: DISPOSED OFF
Bench: VIBHA KANKANWADI HITEN S VENEGAVKAR

Holding

The respondent must decide the application within six weeks as directed by the Court.

Summary

The petitioner, Anil Laxmanrao Jadhav, filed a writ petition seeking directions to the State of Maharashtra (respondent No.2) to decide an application dated 03‑04‑2025 concerning the regularisation of a sale deed dated 12‑02‑2003 that would convert a Bhogwatadar Class II into Class I. The application must be considered in light of a Government Notification dated 20‑02‑2025 and a subsequent Government Resolution dated 15‑07‑2025. The respondent had earlier passed an order on 26‑02‑2024 rejecting the conversion. The learned Additional Government Pleader (AGP) for the respondents waived notice and undertook that the application would be decided within six weeks. The Court accepted this undertaking as sufficient and directed respondent No.2 to decide the application within six weeks, thereby disposing of the writ petition.

Issues considered

Whether the Court should direct the respondent to decide the pending application for regularisation of the sale deed within a specified time frame.

Subjects

writ petition
regularisation
sale deed
Bhogwatadar
government notification
administrative direction
court order

Judgment

2026:BHC-AUG:10851-DB


                        IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                   BENCH AT AURANGABAD


                              907 WRIT PETITION NO.2571 OF 2026


                                    ANIL LAXMANRAO JADHAV
                                              VERSUS
                          THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER
                                                 ...
                             Mr. C.V. Thombre, Advocate for petitioner
                        Mrs. Saie S. Joshi, AGP for respondent Nos.1 and 2
                                                 ...

                                          CORAM :      SMT. VIBHA KANKANWADI &
                                                       HITEN S. VENEGAVKAR, JJ.

                                          DATE :       09th MARCH, 2026


            ORDER :



            .           Present petition has been filed for directions to respondent No.2

            to decide the application dated 03.04.2025 in the light of Government

            Notification dated 20.02.2025 and subsequent Government Resolution dated

            15.07.2025 for regularization of sale deed dated 12.02.2003 for conversion

            of Bhogwatadar Class II into Bhogwatadar Class I by reconsidering the order

            dated 26.02.2024 passed by respondent No.2, within stipulated period.


            2           Learned AGP waives notice for respondent Nos.1 and 2. Upon
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instructions, learned AGP submits that the said application would be decided

within a period of six weeks. We take the said statement as undertaking and

dispose of the writ petition by directing respondent No.2 to decide the said

application within a period of six weeks.




( HITEN S. VENEGAVKAR, J. )                 ( SMT. VIBHA KANKANWADI, J. )




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