Arvind Vishwanath Shapurkar And Others v. The State Of Maharashtra Through Water Supply And Sanitation Department And Others

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.1936 OF 2023 Arvind Vishwanath Shapurkar, Narayan S/o Vasantrao Wakure, Rajabhau Shivaji Gadkar, Vijaykumar S/o Pandharinath Dixit, Bhaskar S/o Dongar Chirmade, Gopal S/o Kashinath Pachpande, Kishor S/o Supadu Warke, Baburao Ramdas Kale, Sudhakar Rajaram Mahajan, Ishwar Kashinath Khune, Sunil Sitaram Chaudhari, Ramesh Anand Nemade, Ashok S/o Damodar Bhamre and Khemraj Hari Khadke (Died), through LR's Shrimati. Vimal W/o Khemraj Khadke.

...PETITIONERS

VERSUS

The State of Maharashtra and others.

..RESPONDENTS ...

Advocate for the Petitioners : Shri Gaurav L. Deshpande AGP for Respondents 1 and 2/State : Shri S.G. Sangle Advocate for Respondents 3 to 6 : Shri A.G. Vasmatkar ...

CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE & SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, JJ.

DATE :- 20th February, 2023 Per Court :- 1.

We have considered the submissions of the learned

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Since the matters in which identical fact situation was brought before the Court, have been decided by the judgment dated 19/09/2022, delivered by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No.2330/2021 (Upendra Madhavrao Kulkarni Vs. State of Maharashtra and others) and a group of petitions, we requested the learned Advocate Shri. A.G. Vasmatkar, appearing for the Company, to assist the Court, since he had appeared in all these matters, which were decided vide the said judgment.

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After granting a pass over, the learned Advocate Shri.Vasmatkar, submits on instructions that, this Writ Petition can be disposed off in the light of the judgment dated 19/09/2022, and the Company would resort to the exercise of verification, as is directed by this Court in paragraph No.10 of the said judgment.

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In view of the above, the Writ Petition is disposed off, for the reasons set out in the judgment dated 19/09/2022. The cases of each of these petitioners would be verified and those petitioners, who are found to be eligible for grant of such financial up-gradation, the consequential benefits would be

*3* extended to them within a period of four months from today. To make it clear, the exercise of verifying each case of these petitioners and the grant of consequential benefits, if held eligible, would be completed, on or before 31/05/2023. kps (SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, J.) (RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J.)