Bombay High CourtWP/2483/2026disposed off

Mayur Vishwas Chavan And ORS v. The President / Secretary, Sinhagad Technical Education Society And ORS

2026-02-24Hon'Ble Shri Justice Ravindra V. Ghuge , Hon'Ble Shri Justice Abhay J. Mantri2 pages

Digitally signed by GAURI AMIT GAEKWAD Date:

2026.03.09 10:20:15 +0530 GAURI AMIT GAEKWAD 909(i).WP-2483-2026.odt

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.2483 OF 2026 Mayur Vishwas Chavan and Ors.

....Petitioners

Versus

The President/Secretary, Sinhgad Technical Education Society & Ors.

....Respondents ---- Mr. Vaibhav Kulkarni for the Petitioners.

Ms. P.N. Diwan, AGP for the Respondent - State. ---- CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE & ABHAY J. MANTRI, JJ.

DATE : 24th FEBRUARY, 2026 P.C. :- 1.

Though the Petitioners have set out several prayers in this Petition, the learned Advocate for the Petitioners is under instructions to state that the view taken by this Court vide final order dated 17th July, 2025 in Writ Petition No.6765 of 2018 (Suman Sachin Jain and Ors. v/s. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.) and connected matters, be made applicable. The learned Advocate for the Petitioners further submits that this Court has issued certain directions below paragraph no.16 of the said order and all those directions be made applicable to the case of the Petitioners. This order has been modified by speaking to the minutes of the order dated 6th March, 2026. Gauri Gaekwad

909(i).WP-2483-2026.odt 2.

Since an innocuous prayer is put forth, this Petition is disposed off by recording that the directions set out below paragraph no.16 of the order dated 17th July, 2025 in Suman Sachin Jain (Supra), would be made applicable to the Petitioners. 3.

Since the learned Advocate for the Petitioners points out that these Petitioners have not been paid salary for the last 17 months and they are working without salary, we direct the Joint Director Higher Education, Pune for the Commerce colleges and Joint Director Technical Education, Pune for the Engineering faculties, to hear the Management on the aspect of whether these Petitioners have been paid salary for the last 17 months, within a period of 21 days from today and, if the salaries are not paid, to pass effective orders for payment of salary and arrears, because no employee is supposed to work without payment of salary. (ABHAY J. MANTRI, J.) (RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J.) This order has been modified by speaking to the minutes of the order dated 6th March, 2026. Gauri Gaekwad