Dnyaneshwar Pandharinath Mahajan v. The State Of Maharashtra Thr Principal Secretary Home Dept And ORS

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION REVIEW PETITION NO. 25 OF 2026 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 12540 OF 2022 Dnyaneshwar Pandharinath Mahajan .. Petitioner

Versus

The State of Maharashtra & Ors.

.. Respondents ...

Mr. Himanshu Indise a/w Ms Megha Jani and Sampada Khanolkar i/by Vinayak Salokhe, for the Petitioner. Mr. O. A. Chandurkar, Addl.G.P. a/w Ms N.M. Mehra, AGP, for the Respondent-State.

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CORAM: BHARATI DANGRE & MANJUSHA DESHPANDE, JJ.

DATED : 30th MARCH, 2026 P.C:- 1.

The Review Petition is filed for review of the order 16.01.2026, when we disposed of the Petition by the following order:

"1 In this Petition, the Petitioner sought a direction to Respondent No.3 to renew the licence on payment of licence fee, the license being renewable every year. The Petition is filed in the year 2022 and to be precise on 17/08/2022 and since the period of license has expired, it can be inferred that either licence is renewed or its renewal is refused.

In the wake of above, Writ Petition is disposed off."

2.

According to us, considering the limited scope of the review proceedings, and the power being permitted to be Rushikesh

2/2 9 RPW.25.2026.odt exercised only where there is an error apparent on the face of record, since we find the ground being not made out, we dismiss the Review Petition.

It is clarified that we have only expressed the opinion in the wake of the timeline, as the Writ Petition was filed in the year 2022 and the license was renewable every year. (MANJUSHA DESHPANDE, J.) (BHARATI DANGRE, J.) Rushikesh