Sureshchandra Prakashchandra Mehta v. the Divisional Commissioner, Pune Division, Pune and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court writ petitions 1505 & 1506 of 2024 (decided 7 May 2025, M.S. Sonak & Jitendra Jain, JJ.); premature/threshold quashing of show cause notices refused; notices dated 27.09.2023 and 18.10.2023 by Divisional Commissioner Pune Division; review petition(s) by Respondent No.2; bar of limitation; maintainability; no merits for review; opportunity to respond before forum; objections left open; disposal with directions to decide review within 6 months of response; remedy preserved if review allowed; advocates Hrishikesh Shinde (petitioners), Aditya Deolekar AGP (respondents).
What did the court decide?
Both writ petitions disposed of, keeping open all objections to the entertainability of the Review Petitions and to their being allowed on merits; Petitioners to file their response to the impugned notices within a month, to be considered according to law; Divisional Commissioner directed to dispose of the Review Petitions within 6 months of the Petitioners' filing their response; no costs.