1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.885 OF 2010 Jagdish Jayanarayan Jaiswal, Convict No.6005, Aurangabad Central Prison, Aurangabad ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra ..RESPONDENT Miss Priti Ingale, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr B.V. Wagh, A.P.P. for the respondent. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND A.V. POTDAR, JJ. DATE : 18th October, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER P.V. HARDAS, J.) Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. A communication sent by the petitioner through jail has been registered as Criminal Writ Petition and accordingly we had appointed 2 Advocate Miss Priti Ingale to represent the petitioner in this petition before us. The limited grievance of the petitioner in this petition is that the application forwarded by the petitioner seeking his transfer from the Aurangabad jail to the Amravati jail has not been decided. 3. The learned A.P.P., who has filed the affidavit in reply on behalf of the respondents, states before us that the Inspector General of Prisons is not the authority competent to decide the application of the petitioner and, therefore, the application has remained pending. We, therefore, allow this petition and direct the Inspector General of Prisons or any other authorities with whom the application is pending, to forward the said application to the authority who is competent in law to decide the application of the petitioner. This be done within two weeks from today. On such receipt of the application from the authorities, the competent authority shall decide the application, in accordance with law, within a period of four weeks from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. Fees payable to the learned Counsel appointed on behalf of the petitioner is quantified at Rs.1,500/-. ( A.V. POTDAR, J.) ( P.V.HARDAS, J.) amj/criwp885.10