1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.2406 of 1997 Tarachand Prabhakar Ugale Aged 32 yearsa, occ. Service R/o. Deosade, Taluka Newasa District Ahmednagar at present Tirthpuri Taluka Ghansavngi District Jalna. Petitioner Versus 1] The State of Maharashtra 2] Mahatma Phule Irishi Vidyapeeth thorugh its Registrar Rahuri, District Ahmednagar. 3] Deputy Registrar (Administration) Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth Rahuri, District Ahmednagar. Respondents Mr. S.B. Talekar for the petitioner. Mrs. S.D. Shelke, AGP for the respondents. CORAM : B.R. GAVAI & S.V. GANGAPURWALA,JJ. DATE : 24TH JUNE, 2010. ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER B.R. GAVAI,J.] 1] By way of present petition, the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondents to provide 3 % reservation for the 2 handicapped persons in Class III posts. 2] The advertisement which is submitted alongwith the petition is of the year 1997. The appointments in pursuance to the selection process must have been made long back. The persons appointed in pursuance thereof, would have been in service for almost a period of 12 years. Any relief, at this stage, as such, cannot be granted without impleading any of such persons or some of them in representative capacity as party to this petition. No such person has been joined as party respondent. In that view of the matter, the relief which is sought in the present petition is not capable o f being granted at this stage. Apart from that, in the affidavit in reply, filed on behalf of the respondent university, it has been specifically stated that the job of Jr. Research Assistant and Agricultural Assistant is of such a nature that a physically challenged person cannot do the same. It has been further stated that physically challenged persons are being employed by the respondent University, on the posts which are suitable for them. The reply further states that 32 person who are physically challenged have already been employed in the respondent University. In that view of the matter, the petition being sans merit, the same is rejected. Rule is discharged. [S.V. GANGAPURWALA,J.] [B.R. GAVAI,J.] grt/wp