1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.5698 OF 2009 Sameer Suresh Kamathe ..Petitioner V/s. The State of Maharashtra & ors ..Respondents Mr.R.K.Mendadkar, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.C.R.Sonawane, Assistant Government Pleader, for the respondents Ms.Vijaya Pawar, Divisional Social Welfare Officer present CORAM : S.B.MHASE & R.M.SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 29TH JULY, 2009 P.C. . Mr.C.R.Sonawane, Assistant Government Pleader for the respondents, on the basis of the instructions from Ms.Vijaya Pawar,Divisional Social Welfare Officer, makes a statement that the claim of the petitioner will be decided within a period of four months. Statement accepted. 2. The Caste Scrutiny Committee is hereby 2 directed to dispose of the claim of the petitioner in accordance with law on its own merits, within a period of four months. 3. In view of the direction as above based on the statement made by the learned counsel for the respondents, the ad-interim relief granted in this Writ Petition shall continue till the decision of the Scrutiny Committee. 4. With the aforesaid observations, the above Writ Petition is disposed of. ( R.M.SAVANT, J.) ( S.B.MHASE, J. )