-1- IN IN IN THE THE THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL CIVIL CIVIL APPELLATE APPELLATE APPELLATE JURISDICTION JURISDICTION JURISDICTION LETTERS LETTERS LETTERS PATENT PATENT PATENT APPEAL NO.80 of 2003 APPEAL NO.80 of 2003 APPEAL NO.80 of 2003 IN IN IN WRIT WRIT WRIT PETITION PETITION PETITION NO.3226 OF 2003 NO.3226 OF 2003 NO.3226 OF 2003 Punjabrao Popal Gadekar ...Appellant v/s Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation and ors. ...Respondents Mr S.N. Deshpande for Appellant. Mr G.S. Hegde with Mr C.M. Lokesh i/b M/s G.S. Hegde and Associates for Respondents. CORAM : D.K. DESHMUKH AND V.M. KANADE JJ. DATE : 21ST JANUARY 2008. -2- P.C. :- 1. By consent of parties, petition is disposed off in following terms. 2. Within a period of six weeks from today, the appellant shall submit his reply to the show-cause notice dated 24th September 1999. On receiving the reply, he Disciplinary Authority shall pass order thereon in accordance with law within a period of three weeks thereafter and the order shall be communicated to the appellant. 3. In case the order passed by the Disciplinary Authority is adverse to the interest of the appellant, the appellant shall be at liberty to adopt appropriate remedy that may be available to the appellant in law against that order. In that event, nothing said by this Court and the Courts below in the orders which are impugned in this appeal shall be taken into consideration. In other words, the challenge to the adverse order by the appellant shall be considered by the Court or the authority on its own merits on the basis of the material produced before such Court or authority. -3- . Parties to act on the copy of this order duly authenticated by the Sheristedar / Private Secretary of the Court. . Certified copy expedited. ( D.K. DESHMUKH J.) ( V.M. KANADE J.)