1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD Civil Application No.1971 Of 2008 In First Appeal Stamp No.1626 Of 2008 The Executive Engineer, Minor Irrigation Division Beed, Head quarter at Ambajogai, District Beed. .. Applicant. Versus The State of Maharashtra And Another. .. Respondents. With CA No.1973/2008 IN FAST 1569/2008 CA No.1967/2008 IN FAST 1614/2008 CA No.1961/2008 IN FAST 1617/2008 CA No.1963/2008 IN FAST 1620/2008 CA No.1975/2008 IN FAST 1623/2008 CA No.1969/2008 IN FAST 1629/2008 CA No.1965/2008 IN FAST 1632/2008 -------- Shri. Ruturaj Patil, Advocate for applicant. Shri. V.B. Ghatge, Advocate for respondent No.1 – State of Maharashtra. Shri. D.R. Jayabhar, Advocate for respondent No.2 – Claimant. 2 CORAM: NARESH H PATIL & K.K. TATED, JJ. DATE: 23rd JULY 2010 PER COURT : 1) Heard. 2) This Court court had granted stay to the execution on applicants deposit 50% of the amount under award on 4th February 2009, the applicant now shows its willingness to deposit consolidated amount involved in these 8 matters. 3) The learned counsel Shri. Ruturaj Patil submits that a chart would be furnished to the Registry in respect of the names of claimants and the amount deposited against respective claimants individually. 4) The learned counsel appearing for the claimants submits that the claimants are poor agriculturists who are waiting since long for payment of their compensation and in this 3 helpless condition, the counsel submits that, there is no other option than to allow the applicant to deposit the amount, though at a belated stage. 5) We direct the Principal Secretary, Irrigation Department to call for explanation from the concerned Executive Engineer as to why there was undue delay in depositing the amount of compensation in this Court. 6) We allow the applicant to deposit the cheques in the Registry within a period of one week from today. In case the cheques are realized the execution of the judgment and award would stand stayed. The civil applications are disposed of. Sd/- Sd/- (K.K. TATED, J.) (NARESH H PATIL, J.) rsl/ ca.1971.08 stay