1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO.7870 OF 2009 Ganesh s/o Sharadrao Kulkarni ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Mah. & anr. ..RESPONDENTS Mr S.S. Chillarge, Advocate holding for Mr V.G. Sakolkar for the petitioner; Mr K.G. Patil, A.G.P. for respondents. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ. DATE : 24th March, 2010 PER COURT : This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by which the petitioner prays for the following reliefs :- "(A) Rule be issued. Record and proceedings from the offices of the Collector, Osmanabad and the District Rehabilitation Officer, Osmanabad regarding status of the petitioner in the seniority of the Project affected Persons be called for. (B) By a writ of mandamus or any other writ, order or directions the respondents may kindly be directed to forthwith give appointment to the petitioner on any suitable post as per his qualification under the Project Affected category." 2 For the aforesaid reliefs reliance is placed by the learned Counsel for the petitioner on the reported judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in Sunil Eknath Patil alias Chaudhary vs. State of Maharashtra & ors., 2008 (5) AIR Bombay Reporter 225. The Division Bench in the said judgment had directed that it was not necessary for the project affected persons to go through the regular selection process and they were not required to compete with the other candidates. The ratio of the aforesaid Division Bench judgment has been overruled by the Full Bench in Rajendra Pandurang Pagare & anr. vs. State of Maharashtra & ors., 2009 (4) Mh.L.J. 961. In the light of the Full Bench judgment of this Court, referred to above, the petitioner is not entitled for the reliefs claimed for by the petitioner. 2. There being thus no merit in the petition, petition is summarily dismissed with no order as to costs. ( S. V. GANGAPURWALA, J.) ( P. V. HARDAS, J.) amj/wp7870.09