( 1 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 90 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 3414 OF 2007 Atiya Parveen Mirza Mahamood .. Petitioner Versus Shri Pandurang K. Jadhav, .. Respondent Education Officer (Primary), Zilla Parishad, Beed. Shri S.S. Kazi, Advocate for the petitioner. Shri H.K. Mundhe, Advocate for sole respondent. CORAM : P.R. BORKAR,J. DATED : 17.08.2009 P.C. :- 1. Heard Adv. Shri S.S. Kazi for the petitioner and Adv. Shri H.K. Mundhe for sole respondent. This Court in Writ Petition No. 3414 of 2007, decided on 18.06.2008 directed the respondent herein, who was original respondent ( 2 ) No.4, to decide the representation of the petitioner dated 28.12.2006, in so far as it relates to question of seniority, if it has not been decided so far, in accordance with law, within a period of two months. 2. The explanation is filed by the incumbent Pandurang Jadhav. He stated that he was holding temporarily charge of the Education Officer in addition to his own charge and he has also given certain explanation in paras 3,4 and 6. It is also brought on record that said incumbent has retired from service on 30.06.2009 but by order dated 01.06.2009 he has decided the seniority. He stated that the contempt petitioner was senior to Shri Inamdar. The service of present petitioner was not continuous service and there was break and therefore the petitioner lost her seniority. However, the institution was directed to give continuity to the service in Writ Petition No. 286 of 2000 and the management was to take necessary steps. In view of this, in my opinion, there is sufficient compliance with the order passed. Now the management to take decision regarding broken period. 3. In this view of the matter, this Contempt Petition ( 3 ) is dismissed. The present Education Officer is expected to pursue the matter further so that the institution may take appropriate decision within reasonable time. [P.R. BORKAR,J.] snk/2009/AUG09/cp90.09