Amol Shankar Koli v. The State Of Maharashtra Thr The Secretary And ORS

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 152 OF 2024 Amol Shankar Koli

...Petitioner

Versus

The State of Maharashtra and Ors.

...Respondents

**** Mr. Prashant Bhavake for the Petitioner.

Mr. S.B. Kalel, AGP for the Respondent/State. **** SNEHA NITIN CHAVAN CORAM : NITIN JAMDAR AND SNEHA NITIN CHAVAN Date: 2024.01.15 15:37:02 +0530 M.M.SATHAYE, JJ.

DATE : 11 JANUARY 2024 P.C.:

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Heard learned counsel for the parties.

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Petitioner/Employee, working as peon with Respondent No. 7 High School run by Respondent No. 6 Management, is challenging the Order dt. 17 March 2022 passed by Respondent No. 5 / Education Officer, Zilla Parishad, Kolhapur. By said impugned Order, the approval for appointment of the Petitioner is refused. Learned counsel for the Petitioner, on instructions, states that the Respondent Nos. 6 & 7 are supporting the cause of the Petitioner till today. We proceed on the basis of said statement.

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It is submitted that, had an opportunity been given, the Petitioner and Respondent Management would have given appropriate and necessary explanations to reason of rejection. 4.

This method adopted by Education Officer of directly rejecting the proposals, without informing proposed grounds of rejection, is giving rise to unnecessary litigation which takes precious judicial time of this Court because an inquiry about the grounds of rejection are required to be done first time in this Court. 5.

In that view of the matter, we dispose of this petition by directing that the impugned order dated 17 March 2022 will be treated as notice to Respondent / Educational Institute of the proposed ground of rejection. The Petitioner's proposal stands restored. If there are any other grounds on which the Education Officer intends to reject the proposal, he is directed to communicate the same to the Respondent/Educational Institute within a period of 3 weeks from today.

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The Respondent Educational Institute shall thereafter submit its explanation to the proposed grounds of rejection, along with supporting material and case laws / orders of this Court, if relied upon. The Respondent / Education Officer is directed to decide the proposal thereafter within a period of 8 weeks, by dealing with the explanation given by the Educational Institute as also dealing with case law/orders of this Court, by passing a reasoned order, subject to

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We have not expressed any opinion on the Petitioners' proposal and the same shall be decided on its own merits in accordance with law. Needless to mention that if the Respondent/Education Officer proceeds to grant approval, the aforesaid procedure/directions will not apply. 8.

The writ petition is disposed of in the aforesaid terms. ( M.M. SATHAYE, J.) ( NITIN JAMDAR, J.)