1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5218 OF 2009 Prafulla Vasant Mogre ..Petitioner versus State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..Respondents Mr. S. S. Patwardhan for Petitioner. Mrs. S. S. Bhende – AGP for Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 – State. CORAM : D. D. SINHA & A. A. SAYED , JJ. DATED : MARCH 04, 2010. P.C. : 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for the respondent nos. 1 to 3 - State. 2. Counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner is a son of freedom fighter late Vasant Narhar Mogre. The petitioner is a commerce graduate and eligible for appointment in a government service. Petitioner being a ward of freedom fighter, he is entitled to preferential recruitment in government service and therefore has applied for recruitment with respondent no. 3. Petitioner’s case was also recommended by respondent no. 2 2. 3. It is further contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner that on 9th November 2000 respondent no. 3 has written a letter to respondent no. 1 requesting respondent no. 1 to take appropriate decision in this regard. However, till this date the application of the petitioner is pending for decision and therefore the petitioner has filed a petition for necessary directions. 4. The learned Assistant Government Pleader has submitted that the application submitted by the petitioner along with other documents is not traceable and therefore the petitioner should reconstruct the record and submit the same before the respondent no. 1. It is further contended that if the petitioner reconstruct the record and submit the same before the respondent no. 1 within a period of two weeks, this court may direct respondent no. 1 to decide the case of the petitioner in accordance with law within a stipulated period. 5. In the backdrop of the above referred undisputed facts, we dispose of the writ petition with liberty to the petitioner to reconstruct the record and submit the same before the respondent no. 1 within a period of two weeks. If such reconstructed record is submitted by the petitioner before the 3 respondent no. 1, we direct the respondent no.1 to take a decision in this regard in accordance with law and procedure applicable, as early as possible and in any case within a period of six months from the date of communication of this order. (D. D. SINHA, J.) ( A. A. SAYED, J.)