Anita w/o Francis Pillay vs The Union of India — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Anita w/o Francis Pillay vs The Union of India — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Interim compliance directions issued and matters stood over to 02.09.2025: the A.G.P. to forward pending additional affidavits of arrears of salary to the Deputy Director of Education the same day; arrears of petitioners who have filed affidavits to be cleared within two weeks, failing which respondent Nos. 1 to 3 to remain present virtually on the next date; petitioners yet to file affidavits to submit them within two weeks for onward forwarding.

Issue for consideration

Compliance with the Court's earlier direction: whether the respondents have cleared the petitioners' arrears of salary and whether the additional affidavits of arrears of salary submitted by the petitioners are being forwarded to the Deputy Director of Education for processing.

Court's answer

The Court directed that, the same day, the learned A.G.P. forward to the Deputy Director of Education the copies of additional affidavits of arrears of salary already submitted by the petitioners.

Ratio / Principle

If the arrears of salary of petitioners who have already filed additional affidavits (as per the bill forwarded by the Education Officer) are not cleared within two weeks, respondent Nos. 1 to 3 shall remain present virtually on the next date.

Key takeaways

Petitioners who have not yet handed over additional affidavits of arrears of salary to the learned A.G.P. must submit them within two weeks; on receipt, the same are to be forwarded to the Deputy Director of Education.ratio¶108

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench), 19 August 2025 (Nitin B. Suryawanshi and Sandipkumar C. More, JJ.), in a batch of contempt petitions (lead matter: Cont. Petition No. 568 of 2017 in WP/10677/2016, Deepali Nanasaheb Pawar v. State of Maharashtra) concerning non-clearance of the petitioners' arrears of salary. By an earlier order dated 24 June 2025 the respondents had four weeks to clear the arrears. Noting that in some matters the additional affidavits of arrears of salary had not been sent to the Deputy Director of Education, the Court (i) ordered the learned A.G.P. to forward, the same day, copies of all additional affidavits already submitted by the petitioners; (ii) directed that if the arrears of petitioners who have filed such affidavits, as per the bill forwarded by the Education Officer, are not cleared within two weeks, respondent Nos. 1 to 3 shall remain present virtually on the next date; (iii) required petitioners who have not yet submitted their additional affidavits to do so within two weeks, for onward forwarding to the Deputy Director of Education; and (iv) stood the matters over to 02.09.2025.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD

CONT. PETITION NO. 568 OF 2017 IN WP/10677/2016

DEEPALI NANASAHEB PAWAR AND OTHERS VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS

Advocate for the Petitioner Nos. 1 to 10 : Mr. V.S. Panpatte AGP for Respondent/State: Mr. S. J. Salgare

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 21 OF 2024 IN CP/781/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 23 OF 2024 IN CP/782/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 22 OF 2024 IN CP/783/2018

WITH

CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 4008 OF 2023 IN CP/264/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 255 OF 2024 IN WP/1030/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 267 OF 2024 IN WP/8862/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 198 OF 2023 IN CP/114/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 199 OF 2023 IN CP/115/2018

WITH

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CONT. PETITION NO. 363 OF 2024 IN WP/2274/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 368 OF 2024 IN WP/2273/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 223 OF 2023 IN WP/892/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 403 OF 2024 IN WP/8509/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 404 OF 2024 IN WP/10162/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 406 OF 2024 IN WP/4038/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 451 OF 2024 IN CP/251/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 452 OF 2024 IN CP/250/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 453 OF 2024 IN CP/251/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 454 OF 2024 IN CP/254/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 599 OF 2022 IN WP/923/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 600 OF 2022 IN WP/3961/2016

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WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 603 OF 2022 IN WP/3962/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 596 OF 2022 IN WP/10817/2015

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 542 OF 2025

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 926 OF 2024 IN WP/5179/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 924 OF 2024 IN WP/1030/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 913 OF 2024 IN WP/5272/2016

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 123 OF 2025 IN CP/264/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 763 OF 2023 IN CP/631/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 912 OF 2023 IN CP/745/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 916 OF 2023 IN CP/114/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 913 OF 2023 IN CP/114/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 1064 OF 2024

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IN CP/264/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 1066 OF 2024 IN CP/264/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 1068 OF 2024 IN CP/264/2017

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 917 OF 2023 IN CP/746/2018

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 938 OF 2023 IN WP/8375/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 941 OF 2023 IN WP/8840/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 939 OF 2023 IN WP/6097/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 940 OF 2023 IN WP/8891/2022

WITH

CONT. PETITION NO. 235 OF 2024 IN CP/282/2018

CORAM : NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI AND SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE, JJ.

DATED : 19^th AUGUST, 2025

ORDER:-

By order dated 24th June 2025, four weeks’ time was granted to the respondents to clear the arrears of the petitioners,

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failing which respondent Nos. 1 to 3 were directed to remain present today virtually.

Learned A.G.P. states that in some of the matters additional affidavit of arrears of salary amount are not received, and therefore, they are not sent to the Deputy Director of Education. He submits that, after all the petitioners have submitted their additional affidavits of arrears of salary, the same will be forwarded to the Deputy Director of Education.

We are unable to understand as to why the matters in which petitioners have already submitted their additional affidavits of arrears of salary are not forwarded to the Deputy Director of Education for processing it. Today itself, the learned A.G.P. shall forward the copies of additional affidavits of arrears of salary submitted by the petitioners, to the Deputy Director of Education.

If the arrears of salary of the petitioners as per the bill forwarded by the Education Officer are not cleared in case of the petitioners, who have already filed additional affidavits of arrears of salary as per the pay scale within two weeks from today, respondent Nos. 1 to 3 shall virtually remain present on the next date.

The matters in which additional affidavits of arrears of

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salary are not given to the learned A.G.P., the petitioners shall give the same within two weeks from today. On receipt of those additional affidavits, the same be forwarded to the Deputy Director of Education.

Stand over to 02.09.2025.

( SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE ) (NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI ) JUDGE JUDGE

Y.S. Kulkarni