171wp2326.10.odt 1 . IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Writ Petition No. 2326 of 2010 (Qidwai Educational and Cultural Society, Nagpur vs. State and Ors.) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Court's or Judge's orders Coram: D. D. Sinha and A. P. Bhangale, JJ. Date : 17/01/2011. Heard Mr.Anand Parchure, Adv. for the petitioner, Mr.A.G.Mujumdar, Assistant Government Pleader for respondent nos. 1 and 2 and Mr.Pawan Raulkar, Adv. holding for Mr.G.G.Mishra, Adv. for respondent no.3. The Petitioner/Society has applied for grant of permission to start Urdu Medium Primary School at Jaffar Nagar, Nagpur vide application dt. 10.5.2008 for the Academic Session 2008-09. Mr.Anand Parchure, Adv. for the petitioner has submitted that, till this time, the State Government has not communicated any decision in this regard and therefore, prayed that direction be given to respondent no.1 to decide the application dt. 10.5.2008 in accordance with law within the stipulated period. Mr.A. G. Mujumdar, A. G. P. for respondent nos. 1 and 2 has submitted that 171wp2326.10.odt 2 . the application of the petitioner seeking permission to open Urdu medium Primary school was for the Academic Session 2008-09 and we are in 2011 and therefore, it is open for the petitioner to submit fresh application in this regard for the relevant Academic Sessions. In the backdrop of the above referred undisputed facts, it is not known whether the application of the petitioner dt. 10.5.2008 whereby permission was sought to open Urdu medium Primary school is pending or finally decided by the Government one way or the other. In the circumstances, we dispose of the petition with a direction to the State Government to decide the said application dt. 10.5.2008 submitted by the petitioner, if not decided earlier, on its own merits, in accordance with law. If the application of the petitioner is already decided by the State Government, in that event, the State Government shall communicate the said order to the petitioner within a period of fifteen days from the date of communication of this order. JUDGE JUDGE jais