Rajendra Mohan Deokate and Ors. v. the State of Maha., Thr. Secy., Dept. of Public Health, Mumbai and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Pay parity / equal pay writ petitions (batch of six: W.P. Nos. 3068, 3070, 3484, 3293, 3323, 3224 of 2025), Nagpur Bench, decided 24.11.2025 by Anil S. Kilor and Rajnish R. Vyas, JJ.; prayer for minimum pay-scale at the lowest grade in the regular payscale extended to regular employees holding the same post; reliance on order dated 22/11/2024 in Writ Petition No.16763 of 2024 (Akram Harun Shaikh and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.), Principal Seat, Bombay; petitions treated as representations to be decided by respondent/authority in light of that order within 10 weeks; adverse orders to be intimated within two weeks; disposed of; State of Maharashtra, Department of Public Health; advocates P.A. Kulkarni (petitioners) and H.D. Marathe, AGP (State).
What did the court decide?
Petitions disposed of with directions: respondent/authority to treat the petitions as representations and decide them in light of the order dated 22/11/2024 in Writ Petition No.16763 of 2024 within 10 weeks; petitioners' counsel to furnish copies of the petitions and this order within two weeks; any adverse order to be communicated to the petitioners within two weeks thereafter.