1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.4073 OF 2010 Nagorao s/o Bhimrao Sontakke, Age : 25 years, Occup. Student r/o Pimpaldari & Dist. Hingoli ..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra through Secretary, Revenue & Forest Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai 2. The Collector, Hingoli, Dist. Hingoli 3. The District Rehabilitation Officer, Hingoli, Dist. Hingoli ..RESPONDENTS Mr S.K. Adkine, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr S.K. Tambe, A.G.P. for respondents. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ DATE : 4th May, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER GANGAPURWALA , J ] Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties the petition is taken up for final hearing at the stage of admission. 2 2. The grievance of the petitioner is that the petitioner is not being issued a certificate of being a project affected person and, therefore, seeks direction against the respondents to issue the petitioner a certificate of being project affected person. 3. The learned Counsel for the petitioner states that he has submitted an application to the respondents for issuance of a certificate of being a project affected person, but no decision has been taken on the said application. 4. In view of the fact that the application submitted by the petitioner has not yet been decided by the authorities, we are not inclined to grant the relief in terms of prayer clause (B) to the petitioner. However, we direct the respondents to decide the application of the petitioner for issuance of a certificate as being a project affected person, in accordance with law and on its own merits, within a period of two months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioners. 3 5. Rule is made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. ( S.V. GANGAPURWALA ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE amj/wp4073.10