1 836.11 CWP IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 836 OF 2011 Satish S/o Biharilal Baldawa PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & anr. RESPONDENTS ..... Shri Ajit B. Kadethankar, Advocate for the petitioner Smt. R.K. Ladda, APP for the respondent No. 1 Shri Alok Sharma, Additional Solicitor General for Union of India ..... CORAM : U.D. SALVI, J. DATED : 14 th November, 2011. PER COURT : 1. Heard. Perused petition along with annexures thereto. 2. The petitioner is seeking permission to obtain passport for leaving country on study tour to the places like China, Israel, Europe, South Asia South Africa, Keniya, South America, Peru, Brazil, Chilli New Zeland, and Australia 3. The petitioner is an agriculturist from Village Pimpalwadi (Peerachi), Taluka Paithan, District Aurangabad, and has been awarded ‘Krushi Bhushan Puraskar’. The petitioner is also ‘Special Executive Magistrate’ and director of 2 836.11 CWP Dnyanprabhodhini Shikshan Sanstha, Paithan. These are not disputed facts. 4. It appears that he has been drawn in Criminal Case by a Head Master working in one of the school, run by Dnyanprabhodhini Shikshan Sanstha, Paithan being R.C.C. No. 158/2003 pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Paithan, District Aurangabad. However, the criminal proceedings have been stayed by the order of this Court passed in Criminal Application No. 1596/2005 on 19-07-2007. According to the petitioner, except the said case there is no criminal case pending against him, and he has been selected for study tour by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra. 5. Petitioner deserves relief, permission is granted to the petitioner to obtain passport from the concerned authorities in accordance with law. Criminal Writ Petition No. 836/2011 stands disposed off accordingly. . Parties to act on authenticated copy of this order. ( U.D. SALVI, J. ) SDM* Novemberr-11