FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders or directions and Registrar’s Orders. COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WRIT PETITION NO. 6982 OF 2010 HUMAN CHILD WELFARE AND EDUCATION SOCIETY JALNA VERSUS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS ... Advocate for Petitioner(s) : Shri Dhage Vivek J. AGP for Respondent(s): Smt. Gondhalekar A.V. ... CORAM : D B BHOSALE & S B DESHMUKH, JJ. Dated: July 27, 2011 ... 1. Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2. Rule. By consent, Rule made returnable forthwith and the petition is taken up for final disposal. 3. The petitioner - institution, in this Writ Petition, has prayed for direction to the respondents to take decision on their proposal seeking grant, in the light of the Government Policy, with effect from July 2007. The State has filed reply affidavit and in paragraph No.8 thereof, they have stated that the petitioner - institution has not obtained necessary permission as contemplated by Section 34(3) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2000 ("said Act" hereinafter) for running their children home and in view thereof they have not considered the petitioner's proposal / application for release of grant. 4. The petitioner - institution has filed rejoinder and has placed on record the registration certificate issued under Section 34(3) of the said Act. In view thereof, we dispose of this Writ Petition by issuing the following directions. FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders or directions and Registrar’s Orders. COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS (2) WRIT PETITION NO. 6982 OF 2010 (A) Respondent 2 shall consider the petitioner's proposal / application for seeking grants as per the Government Policy, in the light of the certificate issued by the concerned authority under Section 34(3) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act, 2000, as expeditiously as possible and preferably within the period of twelve weeks from the date of receipt of this order. (B) The petitioner is directed to communicate this order to the concerned officer within a period of three weeks from today. (C) It is needless to mention that the concerned authority shall take decision, on merits in accordance with law and so also on the basis of Government Policy, if any, on the petitioner's proposal / application for seeking grants as afore-stated. (D) It is made clear that while passing this order, we have not examined merits of the case. 5. Rule is accordingly disposed of in terms of this order. No order as to costs. ( S B DESHMUKH, J. ) ( D B BHOSALE, J. ) akl