Rajkumar Vitthalrao Kale v. State of Maharashtra, Thr. Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Agri. and Marketing Dept., Mumbai and Anr.
Service law – Regularisation
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench; WP 1065/2025; Rajkumar Vitthalrao Kale v. State of Maharashtra; decided 20.01.2026; regularisation of daily-wager/Khansama (Cook); proposal by Agricultural University pending since April 2015; name omitted from list of 285 regularized employees; mandamus-type direction to State to decide pending regularisation proposal within six weeks; communication of decision within two weeks; petition disposed, not decided on merits; no costs; relevant to delay in deciding regularisation proposals and directions to competent government authority.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of with a direction to respondent No.1-State to take a decision on the regularisation proposal submitted by respondent No.2-University (record page no.52, Annexure-VI) within six weeks of furnishing a copy of the order; respondent No.2-University to communicate the decision to the petitioner within two weeks of the decision. The substantive prayers for regularisation of service from 2015 to 2025 and arrears were not granted by the Court.