Atmaram Pandurang Totewad v. the State of Maharashtra through Secretary and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
WP 8928/2025, Bombay HC Aurangabad Bench, order dt. 14.08.2025, coram Manish Pitale & Y. G. Khobragade, JJ. Petitioner: Atmaram Pandurang Totewad (Clerk, respondent No.3 – District Collector, Amravati). Subject: threatened termination of service vide notice dt. 30.07.2025 unless validity certificate produced, pursuant to impugned order of respondent No.2 – Scrutiny Committee. Relief: notice returnable 25.09.2025 (AGP S. D. Ghayal waived); ad-interim protection against termination during pendency, conditional on undertaking within two weeks not to claim confirmation, promotion, increment, pay fixation etc.; copy of undertaking to respondent No.3's office. Interlocutory order only; no statutes or cases cited; petition pending.
What did the court decide?
Ad-interim protection granted: notice issued, returnable on 25th September 2025, with the learned AGP waiving notice for all respondents; during the pendency of the petition the petitioner's service shall not be terminated only on the basis of the impugned order of respondent No.2 – Scrutiny Committee, subject to the petitioner filing, within two weeks, an undertaking that he shall not claim service benefits (confirmation, promotion, increment, pay fixation etc.), with a copy placed before the office of respondent No.3. Petition remains pending; no final adjudication.