1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5419 OF 2009 Sau. Vinaya Vinayak Bhatkar ........ Petitioner versus Zilla Mahila & Balvikas Adhikari & ors.........Respondent. Mr. K.K. Malpathak adv. for the Petitioner Ms. P.S. Cardozo AGP for the Respondent. CORAM: A. P DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 13th November, 2009. P. C.: 1. The present petitioner is original plaintiff who instituted a suit challenging the communication addressed by the Government to the respondent no.3 directing it to terminate the services of the petitioner who was working as a Superintendent. During pendency of the suit the petitioner was protected by an order of injunction and hence he continued in service. However after the dismissal of the suit, the petitioner came to be terminated from service. The petitioner has filed an appeal and the same is pending before the first appellate court. In the pending appeal the petitioner moved an application making a prayer to continue payment of salary to the petitioner till disposal of the appeal. The application was opposed by the respondent contending that as the petitioner has been already terminated from service, there is no legal right in him to claim salary and allowances. Aggrieved by 2 the same, the petitioner filed the present petition. 2. Perused the order under challenge. The same does not call for any interference. The petitioner cannot claim any right to receive salary and allowances after his termination more so when the suit itself has been dismissed by the trial court. The application moved by the petitioner before the first appellate court for continuing the payment of salary and allowances is wholly mis- conceived. There is no merit in the petition, hence it is dismissed. At this stage the learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it would be in the interest of justice to direct expeditious disposal of the appeal. The learned AGP does not object to the request made by the petitioner for expeditious disposal of the appeal. Though the petition stands dismissed summarily I hope and trust that the first appellate court shall make an endeavour to decide the appeal as expeditiously as possible. (A. P. Deshpande, J.)