Smt. Kalpana Wd/O Pravin Shembekar v. State of Maharashtra, through Secretary, Ministry of Energy, MUMBAI-1 and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
2026:BHC-NAG:5253-DB | WRIT PETITION NO. 4181 of 2025 | High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Nagpur Bench | Decided 2nd April, 2026 | Coram: Anil S. Kilor & Raj D. Wakode, JJ. | Petitioner: Smt. Kalpana wd/o Pravin Shembekar (widow of employee who died in harness 27.02.2024) | Counsel: Sachin S. Joshi for petitioner; Piyush Pendke, AGP for respondent no.1 | Keywords: compassionate appointment, death in harness, application dated 13.03.2024 pending over two years, direction to respondent no.2 to decide within eight weeks, communication of decision within two weeks, writ petition disposed of, no costs. Respondents: State of Maharashtra through its Collector, Nagpur and others; the name/designation of respondent no.2 (the employer) does not appear in the text. No statute or precedent is cited in the judgment.
What did the court decide?
Direction to respondent no.2 to decide the application dated 13.03.2024 for grant of appointment on compassionate basis within eight weeks of production of the order copy, in accordance with law and on its own merits, with the decision to be communicated to the petitioner within two weeks thereafter; no order as to costs.