Pratiksha Amitkumar Saroday @ Ku. Pratiksha Sudhir Mathulkar v. the State of Maharashtra, Thr. Secretary, Rural Development Department, Mumbai and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Compassionate appointment; substitution claim rejected by communication dated 29.01.2025; writ petition disposed with direction to respondent No.2 to reconsider claim within two months uninfluenced by impugned communication; reliance on earlier Nagpur Bench judgment in Kalpana wd/o Vilas Taram (WP 3701/2022, decided 28.05.2024); notice to Zilla Parishad dispensed; State of Maharashtra represented by AGP D.P. Thakare; petitioner's counsel Gaurav Gadge; coram Nitin W. Sambre and Vrushali V. Joshi, JJ.; decided 04.04.2025; citation 2025:BHC-NAG:3561-DB.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of by directing the petitioner to appear before respondent No.2 with her claim for substitution in compassionate appointment, to be dealt with expeditiously within two months of receipt of the order, without being influenced by the impugned communication; no costs.