Manisha Kashiram Kamble v. the State of Maharashtra Thr the Secretary and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ Petition No. 10380 of 2025; High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Circuit Bench at Kolhapur; decided 21 August 2025 by M. S. Karnik & Sharmila U. Deshmukh, JJ. Petitioner: Manisha Kashiram Kamble (Counsel: Sushant A. Khatake); Respondents: State of Maharashtra & Ors. (Respondent Nos.1-5, Counsel: Tejas Kapre, A.G.P.) and Respondent Nos.6 & 7-Management. Subject: grant of individual approval to transfer of an employee/petitioner; proposal pending before the Education Officer (Respondent No.5). Outcome: petition allowed by time-bound directions — decision within four weeks, or within six weeks if the proposal is re-submitted in prescribed format after one-week intimation and one-week re-forwarding. No statutes or precedents cited; no monetary quantum.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the Respondent No.5-Education Officer to decide the proposal forwarded by Respondent Nos.6 & 7-Management for grant of individual approval to the transfer of the Petitioner within four weeks of communication of the Order; if the proposal is not in the proper format, the Education Officer to intimate the Management within one week, the Management to re-forward the proposal in the prescribed format with the documents called for within one week thereafter, and the proposal then to be decided within six weeks.