Sunil Shivappa Tanwade v. The State Of Maharashtra, Thr The Collector, Osmanabad And ORS

2026:BHC-AUG:3250 fa1023.15 -1-

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

BENCH AT AURANGABAD 953 FIRST APPEAL NO. 1023 OF 2015 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 5026 OF 2025 WITH X-OBJECTION NO. 26 OF 2023 IN FA/1023/2015 The State of Maharashtra and others

VERSUS

Sunil Shivappa Tanwade ...

A.G.P. for Appellant : Mr. S.G. Joshi Advocate for Respondent : Mr. A.B. Kale .....

CORAM : SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, J.

DATED : 23rd JANUARY, 2026 PER COURT :- 1.

This appeal is preferred against the judgment and award dated 27.04.2010 passed by the learned Land Reference Court, Omerga, District Osmanabad in LAR No.573 of 2009. 2.

The learned AGP for the State submits that in view of the policy decision of the State Government as per the Government Resolution dated 03.11.2016 and the corrigendum dated 23.02.2017 issued thereto, the State Government has resolved not to file or contest any appeal where the amount of compensation awarded by the Reference Court is within four times of the amount awarded by the SLAO. He submits that the present first appeal deserves to be

fa1023.15 -2disposed of in view of the aforesaid policy decision of the State Government, as the amount of compensation awarded by the Reference Court is within four times of the amount awarded by the SLAO.

3.

Considering the submissions of the learned AGP as well as the policy decision of the State Government, the appeal deserves to be disposed of. The First Appeal is disposed of accordingly. 4.

In view of disposal of the first appeal, nothing further survives for consideration in civil application No. 5026 of 2025 and the same is accordingly disposed of.

5.

List the cross objections for hearing on 02.02.2026. (SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, J.) rlj/