Bombay High Court
ADARSH EDUCATION SOCIETY THROUGH ITS PRESIDENT KAMALKISHOR MOTILAL KABRA AND ANOTHERversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH SECRETARY AND OTHERS
- Disposal
- DISPOSED OFF
Holding
The Court held that the petition could not be entertained for the elapsed academic year and allowed the petitioner to file a fresh proposal for the current academic year.
Summary
The petitioners, Adarsh Education Society and its president, filed a writ petition challenging the State of Maharashtra's rejection of their proposal for the 2024-25 academic year on the basis that their NAAC accreditation had expired on 4 November 2021. The petitioners argued that they had obtained a B+ grade NAAC accreditation and had submitted it to the respondents, who nonetheless disregarded it. The respondents maintained that the accreditation lapse justified the rejection. The Court observed that the academic year in question had already passed and the petition could not be entertained for that period. Consequently, the Court disposed of the petition, directing the petitioners to submit a fresh proposal for the current academic year 2025-26. No substantive examination of the accreditation issue was made beyond this procedural direction.
Issues considered
- Whether the rejection of the petitioner's proposal for the 2024-25 academic year on the ground of expired NAAC accreditation is legally valid.
- Whether the petitioner is entitled to file a fresh proposal for the current academic year despite the earlier rejection.
Subjects
- NAAC accreditation
- Academic proposal
- Writ petition
- Education institution
- High Court of Bombay
- Administrative law
Judgment
2026:BHC-AUG:39619-DB
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
BENCH AT AURANGABAD
WRIT PETITION NO. 430 OF 2025
Adarsh Education Society Through Its President Kamalkishor Motilal
Kabra And Another
….Petitioner
VERSUS
The State Of Maharashtra Through Secretary And Others
…..Respondent
…..
Advocate for the Petitioner : Mr. Patil Hanmant V.
AGP for Respondents: Mr. S.R. Wakale.
Advocate for respondent No.3 : Mr. S.R. Bagal h/f. Mr. Vikaram Kadam.
CORAM : N.B. SURYAWANSHI &
ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ.
DATE : 31 AUGUST, 2026.
P.C.:-
Petitioner's proposal for academic year 2024-25 is rejected
by the respondents on the ground that the NAAC Accreditation has come
to an end on 4.11.2021.
2. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the
petitioner institution has already received NAAC Accreditation B+ Grade.
Though the same is forwarded to the respondents, the respondents have
not taken it into consideration.
3. Be that as it may, since the proposal of the petitioner was for
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the academic year 2024-25 and now the academic year 2025-26 has
commenced, we dispose of the petition by permitting the petitioner to file
a fresh proposal for the current academic year.
[ABASAHEB D. SHINDE] [N.B. SURYAWANSHI]
JUDGE JUDGE
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