WPs 5424/11, 5429/11 & 5402/11 1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5424/2011 Muktabai Abarao Pawar & others V/s The State & others. WITH WRIT PETITION NO.5429/2011 Sonaji Kushaba Bargal & others V/s The State & others. WITH WRIT PETITION NO.5402/2011 Gopinath Anna Bodkhe & others V/s The State & others. _______________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office | Memoranda of Coram, | Court's or Judge's orders appearances, Court's | orders or directions | and Registrar's orders | In WP 5424/11 : Shri A.R. Borulkar, Advocate for petitioners. Shri K.M. Suryawanshi, AGP for respondent nos.1 to 11. In WP 5429/11: Shri A.R. Borulkar, Advocate for petitioners. Shri V.H. Dighe, AGP for respondent nos.1 to 9. In WP 5402/11: Shri A.R. Borulkar, Advocate for petitioners. Mrs.V.A. Shinde, AGP for respondent nos.1 to 6 and 7 to 11. Shri Umakant Patil, Advocate for respondent no.7. CORAM: D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. Date: 09.08.2011 WPs 5424/11, 5429/11 & 5402/11 2 Heard learned counsel for the respective parties. In these writ petitions, 115 petitioners have prayed for direction to the respondents to pay the amount of compensation settled in different Lok Adalats. On last occasion, learned AGPs were directed to take instructions as to within how much time the amounts of compensation settled in the Lok Adalats will be paid to the petitioners. Today, learned AGPs, on instructions, submit that they are not in a position to give the exact period for making the payments. They further submit that the proposals received from the Land Acquisition Officer seeking sanction of the amounts are pending before respondent no.1. There is no dispute that the claims / references of all the petitioners are settled in different Lok Adalats, which were held some time in November, 2009 and April, 2010. Keeping that in view and considering over all facts and circumstances of the case, we are WPs 5424/11, 5429/11 & 5402/11 3 satisfied that these petitions can be conveniently disposed of by the following order. The Government shall consider the proposals forwarded by the Land Acquisition Officer seeking sanction and release of the amount of compensation within a period of two months from today. The learned AGPs are directed to communicate this order to the concerned officers of respondent no.1 within a period of three weeks from today. After the amounts are sanctioned, the Government shall remit the amounts to the concerned acquiring bodies and the acquiring bodies in turn shall remit it to the Land Acquisition Officer for its disbursement to the claimants / the petitioners as per the settlement arrived at in the Lok Adalats, within a period of four months therefrom. We hope and trust that all the respondents in these petitions shall see to it that the amounts of compensation will be paid to the respective claimants / the petitioners within WPs 5424/11, 5429/11 & 5402/11 4 six months from today. With these observations, the petitions are disposed of. (S.B. Deshmukh, J.) (D.B. Bhosale, J.) Dt/- 09.08.2011 ndk/c98117