Bombay High Court

MAHATMA JYOTIBA PHULE SAMAJIK VIKAS SANSTHA PANGAON THR ITS PRESIDENTversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THR ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS

Disposal: DISPOSED OFF
Bench: ARUN R PEDNEKER VAISHALI PATIL JADHAV

Holding

The writ petition is dismissed as infructuous because the order sought has already been issued.

Summary

The petitioner, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Samajik Vikas Sanstha, filed a writ petition seeking a direction to the State of Maharashtra to release grants and rent for a backward girls’ hostel it runs. The State’s Attorney General indicated that an order on the matter had already been issued on 2 January 2026. The Court observed that because the order had already been passed, the petition no longer had any live issue. Consequently, the petition was held to be infructuous and was disposed of. The Court noted that the petitioner remains free to challenge the 2 January 2026 order through any appropriate legal remedy if aggrieved.

Issues considered

The petition is maintainable when the substantive order sought has already been passed by the respondent.

Subjects

writ petition
infructuous
grant release
administrative order
high court

Judgment

  2026:BHC-AUG:2259-DB

                                                               1
                                           IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                                     BENCH AT AURANGABAD.

                                                952 WRIT PETITION NO.8736 OF 2023

                                       Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Samajik Vikas Sanstha Pangaon,
                                                             Thr Its President
                                                                 VERSUS
                                        The State Of Maharashtra Thr Its Secretary And Others
                                                                    …..
                                               Shri. D.R. Kale, Advocate for the Petitioner
                                           Shri. A. R. Kale, AGP for the Respondent – State.
                                       Shri. S. S. Manale, Advocate for Respondent Nos.4 and 5
                                                                    …..
                                                             CORAM :      ARUN R. PEDNEKER AND
                                                                          VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV, JJ.
                                                             Dated    :   JANUARY 17, 2026
                             PER COURT :-

                             .        The present Writ Petition has been filed by the Petitioner seeking
                             direction to the Respondents for release of grants and rent for the
                             premises of Vachchalabai Naik Backward Girls Hostel at Latur, run by the
                             Petitioner.

                             2.       The learned AGP submits that, in respect of the above subject
                             matter, the order has been passed by Respondent No.1 on 02.01.2026.

                             3.       Considering that already the order is passed by Respondent No.1,
                             nothing survives in the present petition and the same stands disposed of
                             as having become infructuous. The Petitioner is at liberty to avail
                             remedy as is available under law against the order dated 02.01.2026, if
                             he is aggrieved by the same.




                             (VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV, J.)                  ( ARUN R. PEDNEKER, J. )

                             GGP




Signed by: Gajanan G. Punde
Designation: PA To Honourable Judge
Date: 21/01/2026 11:14:46

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