1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 492 OF 2008 Kailas B. Gaud ...Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors. ... Respondents Mr. A.R. Gole for the Petitioner Mr. G. Hariharan with Mr. Kiran Kandpile i/by Dr. T.C. Kaushik for Respondent No. 1 Mr. M.D. Naik, Assistant Government Pleader, for Respondents No. 2 and 3 Mr. R. Rodrigues for Respondent No. 5 WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 588 OF 2008 Abhay H. Pathare ...Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors. ... Respondents Mr. Sengupta i/by M/s. Sanjay Udeshi & Co. for the Petitioner Mr. N.R. Prajapati with Mr. D.A. Athawale i/by Dr. T.C. Kaushik for Respondent No. 1 Mr. M.D. Naik, Assistant Government Pleader, for Respondents No. 2 and 3 Mr. R. Rodrigues for Respondent No. 5. 2 CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and A.P. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE: APRIL 4, 2008 P.C.:- One Writ Petition has been filed, seeking a direction to the respondents to hold elections to the Central Council of Indian Medicine, as the elections were not held, although they were due for a long time. 2. The learned counsel for the Government of India has produced a letter dated 12th March, 2008 issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, by which Mr. A.V. Athavale has been appointed as Returning Officer, who will be holding the elections. Therefore, the grievance of the petitioner does not survive. The Returning Officer will have to fix a schedule in terms of law to hold the elections. 3. Another Writ Petition is filed, seeking a direction that the Register of Practising Doctors should be updated, and the names of the bogus doctors, who have been registered by the Maharashtra Council of Indian Medicine, if do not possess the qualifications, should be removed from the register. This is also expected to be done by 3 the Returning Officer, and it is submitted by the learned counsel for the Maharashtra Council of Indian Medicine that this Court has already given direction in that regard in a batch of Writ Petitions, the lead petition being A.S. Writ Petition No. 5526 of 1995, decided on 22nd December, 2006 (Coram: B.N. Marlapalle & J.H. Bhatia, JJ.). 4. We, therefore, dispose of both the petitions, directing the Returning Officer to hold the elections in accordance with the provisions of law, and also ensure that the Register of Practising Doctors is maintained up-to-date, and no names of bogus doctors are left in the register. The whole process of elections shall, however, be completed within a period of six months from today. BILAL NAZKI, J. A.P. DESHPANDE, J.