Namdeo S/O Anandrao Gadling v. Shri. Vikas Kharge, Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue and Forest Department, Mumbai
Case brief
What is this about?
Contempt Petition 335/2025, Bombay HC Nagpur Bench, dated 17-11-2025 (Kilor & Vyas, JJ.). Petitioner Namdeo s/o Anandrao Gadling, through Adv. Saurav Golhar, alleges non-compliance by respondent Vilas Kharge (Addl Chief Secretary, Revenue and Forest Dept., Mantralaya) with the Court's direction to decide his representation within a time-bound period. Court issued notice returnable 15.12.2025; private-mode service permitted; affidavit of service required by next date else Rs. 500 costs to High Court Gazetted Officers' Association, Nagpur; office objections to be removed. Interlocutory order only — no statute or precedent cited, no holding recorded.
What did the court decide?
Notice ordered to be issued to the respondents, returnable on 15.12.2025; petitioner permitted to serve by private mode in addition to regular mode, with affidavit of service to be filed by the next date (failing which Rs. Five Hundred costs depositable with the High Court Gazetted Officers' Association, Nagpur); office objections, if any, to be removed before the next date.