Sudhakar Kushaba Gode v. Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority
Service law – seniority list / promotion
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court OOCJ; WRIT PETITION NO. 3433 OF 2024; Sudhakar Kushaba Gode & Ors. v. Maharashtra Housing And Area Development Authority (MHADA); Respondent No.2 State of Maharashtra; Respondent Nos. 3 to 10; seniority list dated 2nd January 2023; order No.Ja.Kra.Pradhi/JyeSu/2022/6210/Pra.12 dated 20.12.2022; order No.Pradhi/Prmotion/2023/05/Pra.8 dated 02.01.2023; promotion to Assistant (Class-3); identical footing with Writ Petition No.2248/2023 (Nagpur Bench); Vikrant S/o. Sudhakar Jugade v. State of Maharashtra, judgment dated 17 July 2025; internal notings dated 18.07.2022; petitions allowed in terms of prayer clause (b); contingent Supreme Court interference direction; coram Ravindra V. Ghuge & Gautam A. Ankhad, JJ.; decided 02-09-2025.
What did the court decide?
Petition allowed in terms of prayer clause (b): impugned order dated 20.12.2022 (No.Ja.Kra.Pradhi/JyeSu/2022/6210/Pra.12) and subsequent order dated 02.01.2023 (No.Pradhi/Prmotion/2023/05/Pra.8) promoting Respondent Nos. 3 to 11 to the post of Assistant (Class-3) to be quashed and set aside, with a direction to Respondent No.1 to consider the Petitioners' representations based on internal notings dated 18.07.2022.