The Blind Relief Association Nagpur, Thr. Its Secretary and Others v. State of Maharashtra, Thr. Its Secretary, Persons With Disabilities Welfare Dept., Mumbai and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Neutral citation: 2025:BHC-NAG:3490-DB. Keywords: writ petition; Bombay High Court Nagpur Bench; specially disabled category; wait list; surplus list; absorption orders; 43 wait-listed candidates; NOC (no objection certificate) for filling vacancy; Blind Relief Association Nagpur; Pawan Ramkrushna Gawande; State of Maharashtra; change of management; hamdast service; order dated 16/10/2024 modified; waiting list to be operated as and when persons enrolled; matter listed 07/04/2025.
What did the court decide?
Writ Petition No. 343 of 2025 allowed: respondent Nos. 1 and 2 directed to grant NOC to the petitioners to fill the existing vacancy in terms of applications at Annexure-A and B within two weeks, subject to the caution that NOC be granted only where no candidates are available in the wait/surplus list; no costs. Learned AGP to place on record the list of persons included in the wait list and directed to be absorbed. In Writ Petition No. 8001 of 2019, the order dated 16/10/2024 is modified to direct the respondents-State to operate the waiting list as and when persons are enrolled therein; petitioners to serve respondent Nos. 13 and 14 by all modes of service including hamdast by 07/04/2025; respondent No. 15 granted time till 07/04/2025 to file reply on the claim of petitioner No. 7, failing which that claim will be decided without its reply; matter listed for further consideration on 07/04/2025.