1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.1141 OF 2010 Poornawadi Nagrik Sahakari Bank, Head Office Beed Through, Nishikant s/o Kamlakarraoi Kulkarni, Age : 45 years, Occu.Service; As an Authorized Officer, R/o Subhash Road, Beed, Dist. Beed ..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The Collector, District Beed 2. Syed Nasir Syed Ali, Age : Major, Occu. Business, R/o Vidya Nagar, East Barshi Road, House No.1-7-437, Beed, Tq. and Dist. Beed ..RESPONDENTS Mr G.K. Thigle, Advocate for the petitioner; Mrs A.V. Gondhalekar, A.G.P. for respondent no.1; Mrs A.N. Ansari, Advocate for respondent no.2. WITH WRIT PETITION NO.1144 OF 2010 Poornawadi Nagrik Sahakari Bank, Head Office Beed Through, Nishikant s/o Kamlakarraoi Kulkarni, Age : 45 years, Occu.Service; As an Authorized Officer, R/o Subhash Road, Beed, Dist. Beed ..PETITIONER 2 VERSUS 1. The Collector, District Beed 2. Sow. Dropadibai w/o Prabhakar Dudhal, Age Major, Occu. Business & Household, R/o Shivaji Chowk, Patoda, Tq. Patoda, Dist. Beed ..RESPONDENTS Mr G.K. Thigle, Advocate for the petitioner; Mrs A.V. Gondhalekar, A.G.P. for respondent no.1; Mr Rahul Dhase, Advocate for respondent no.2. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ DATE : 16th June, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER P.V. HARDAS , J ] Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties these petitions, which pray for similar relief, are being decided finally at the stage of admission by this common judgment. 2. Undisputedly the petitioners in both these petitions have submitted an application before the first respondent i.e. Collector, under section 14 of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002. 3 The aforesaid applications are said to be pending since last more than a year. In that light of the matter, therefore, and in the light of the limited relief which the petitioners have prayed for in these petitions, we allow these petitions and direct respondent no.1 Collector to decide the said applications in accordance with law and pass necessary orders thereon within two months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioners. 3. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. Sd/- Sd/- ( N.D. DESHPANDE ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE //Authentic copy// (A. M. Joshi), P.S. to Honourable Judge 4