Ganpat Shrihari Dhumak v. Vijay Kumar

Bombay HC21 Jan 2026CP/985/2024

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What is this about?

Aurangabad Bench contempt petition disposed on compliance; direction under Court's order dated 16 April 2024; petitioners' representation dated 27.12.2023 decided; revised pay-scale denied per K.P. Bakshi Committee recommendation; affidavit-in-reply dated 4.4.2025 by AGP V.M. Jaware; speed-post intimation to petitioners on 7 March 2025; arises from WP 3924/2024; petitioner Ganpat Shrihari Dhumak; respondent Vijay Kumar; liberty to challenge decision by due recourse of law; petition stands disposed of.

What did the court decide?

Petition disposed of upon the Court noting compliance with its direction under the order dated 16th April 2024; petitioners left at liberty to challenge the respondent's decision on their representations dated 27.12.2023 by taking due recourse of law. ¶¶17

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether the respondents have complied with the direction issued by this Court under its order dated 16th April 2024 to decide the petitioners' representation dated 27.12.2023.

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Court's answer

The direction of this Court under its order dated 16th April 2024 has been complied with (the petitioners' representation dated 27.12.2023 having been decided and the decision communicated to them by speed post on 7th March 2025).

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Ratio / Principle

The petitioners may challenge the order passed by the respondent on their representations dated 27.12.2023, if so desired, by taking due recourse of law; the qualifying words appear in the continuation paragraphs (¶16-¶17).

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Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Contempt Petition No. 985 of 2024 in Writ Petition No. 3924 of 2024 — High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad — Coram: Sandipkumar C. More and Abasaheb D. Shinde, JJ. — Order dated January 21, 2026. None appeared for the petitioner. The learned AGP (Mr. V.M. Jaware), referring to affidavit-in-reply dated 4.4.2025, submitted that pursuant to this Court's direction the petitioners' representation dated 27.12.2023 had been decided, ultimately holding them not entitled to revised pay-scale as per the recommendation of the K.P. Bakshi Committee, and that all the petitioners were informed of the said decision by speed post on 7th March 2025, the copy being placed on record. The Court held that its direction under the order dated 16th April 2024 stood complied with and disposed of the petition, observing that the petitioners may challenge the respondent's decision on their representations dated 27.12.2023, if so desired, by taking due recourse of law.

Ganpat Shrihari Dhumak v. Vijay Kumar

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