Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve vs Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai Suburban — Bombay HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve vs Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai Suburban — Bombay HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Writ Petition No. 346 of 2025 disposed of as withdrawn with no order as to costs. In Writ Petition Nos. 343 and 347 of 2025, no merits decision: by consent, parties to file fresh Applications before the Deputy Collector and the Competent Authority of the SRA by 4 February 2026 (additional supporting documents permitted) for an eligibility decision due by 5 March 2026; the Grievance Redressal Committee's order dated 2 July 2024 kept in abeyance until then; matters stood over to 9 March 2026.

Issue for consideration

Whether the Grievance Redressal Committee's order dated 2 July 2024 rejecting the Petitioners' Applications (challenged in Writ Petition Nos. 343, 346 and 347 of 2025, relating to eligibility) should be set aside.

Court's answer

On the request of counsel for the Petitioners (on instructions of Mr. Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve, present in Court), leave to withdraw was granted and Writ Petition No. 346 of 2025 was disposed of as withdrawn with no order as to costs.

Ratio / Principle

In the remaining two Writ Petitions (Nos. 343 and 347 of 2025), by consent of parties, both sides were directed to make a fresh Application before the Deputy Collector and the Competent Authority of the SRA on or before 4 February 2026 for deciding their eligibility.

Key takeaways

It was clarified that the fresh Applications may be accompanied by supporting documents which had not been annexed to the Petitioners' earlier Applications.ratio¶39
The concerned Authority was ordered to hear and decide the two fresh Applications and pass necessary orders thereon on or before 5 March 2026.ratio¶40
Until the Authority decides, the Grievance Redressal Committee's order dated 2 July 2024 is kept in abeyance insofar as it pertains to the respective Petitioners in Writ Petition No. 343 of 2025 and Writ Petition No. 347 of 2025; the merits were therefore not adjudicated by this Court at this stage.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Bombay High Court (Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction), Farhan P. Dubash, J., order dated 27 January 2026 in three linked writ petitions — WP No. 343/2025 (Harshad Chandrashekhar Kurve), WP No. 346/2025 (Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve) and WP No. 347/2025 (Chandrakala Vithal Saudhalkar) — each challenging the Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai's order dated 2 July 2024 rejecting the petitioner's Application. WP 346/2025 was, at counsel's instance on instructions of the petitioner present in Court, disposed of as withdrawn with no order as to costs. For the remaining two petitioners, a consent order was passed: (i) both parties to make fresh Applications before the Deputy Collector and the Competent Authority of the SRA on or before 4 February 2026 for deciding their eligibility, with liberty to annex supporting documents not previously filed; (ii) the concerned Authority to hear and decide the Applications and pass necessary orders on or before 5 March 2026; (iii) the GRC order of 2 July 2024 kept in abeyance, insofar as it pertains to the respective petitioners in WP 343/2025 and WP 347/2025, until then. Matters stood over to 9 March 2026. No statutory provision or precedent is cited; no adjudication of merits was made by this Court.

36.WP/343/2025-Harshad Vs GRC 37.WP/346/2025-Chandrashekhar Vs. GRC 38.WP/347/2025-Chandrakala Vs. GRC

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

WRIT PETITION NO. 343 OF 2025

Harshad Chandrashekhar Kurve … Petitioner

V/s

Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai & Ors. … Respondents

WITH

WRIT PETITION NO. 346 OF 2025

Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve … Petitioner

V/s

Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai & Ors. … Respondents

WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 347 OF 2025

Chandrakala Vithal Saudhalkar … Petitioner

V/s

Grievance Redressal Committee, Mumbai & Ors. … Respondents

Adv. Navin Singh for Petitioners.

Adv. Vrushali Kabre, learned AGP for Respondent – State in WP/343/2025. Adv. Mashura Deshmukh, learned AGP for Respondent – State in WP/346/ 2025.

Adv. Gauri Sawant, learned AGP for Respondent Nos. 1 & 2 in WP/347/25. Adv. Prakhar Tandon a/w. Adv. Aastish Jayade i/b. Adv. Ravleen Sabharwal for Respondent No. 3 – SRA.

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CORAM : FARHAN P. DUBASH, J.

DATE : 27^th JANUARY 2026

P. C.:

These three Writ Petitions have been filed impugning an order dated 2^nd July 2024 passed by the Grievance Redressal Committee rejecting the Application made by the Petitioners therein.

Mr. Navin Singh, learned Counsel who appears on behalf of the Petitioners, on instructions of his client Mr. Chandrashekhar Sakharam Kurve, who is present in Court today, seeks leave to withdraw the Writ Petition No. 346 of 2025. Leave is granted and accordingly, Writ Petition No. 346 of 2025 is disposed of as withdrawn with no order as to costs.

Insofar as the remaining two Writ Petitions are concerned, by consent of parties, the following order is passed :

:: ORDER ::

(i) Both parties shall make a fresh Application

before the Deputy Collector and the Competent

Authority of the SRA on or before 4^th February 2026 for deciding their eligibility. It is clarified that they may

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annex documents in support of such an Application which may not have been annexed to their earlier Applications.

(ii) The concerned Authority shall hear and decide these two Applications and pass necessary orders thereon, on or before 5^th March 2026.

(iii) Till then, the order dated 2^nd July 2024 insofar as it pertains to the respective Petitioners in Writ Petition No. 343 of 2025 and Writ Petition No. 347 of 2025 is kept in abeyance.

Stand over to 9^th March 2026.

( FARHAN P. DUBASH, J. )

Ajay Jadhav

36.WP/343/2025-Harshad Vs GRC

37.WP/346/2025-Chandrashekhar Vs. GRC

38.WP/347/2025-Chandrakala Vs. GRC

Digitally signed by JYOTI JYOTI PRAKASH PRAKASH PAWAR PAWAR Date:2026.01.28 22:06:59 +0530

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