1 caw-516.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 516 OF 2011 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 2446 OF 2006 Gopal B. Bhangare and others. ... Applicants. V/s. Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation, Kalyan and others. ... Respondents. R.K.Mendadkar for the appellants/petitioners. Prashant Kamble i/b. A.S.Rao for respondent Nos.1 & 2. A.B.Vagyani, AGP for respondent No.3. N.N.Bandivadekar for respondent Nos.4 to 6, 8 to 10, 12 to 15 and 17 to 27. M.D.Nagle for respoondent Nos.4 to 6, 8 to 17, 19, 21, 23 to 26 and 27. CORAM : A.M.KHANWILKAR AND MRS.MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATED : 8th March 2011. P.C. : Two reliefs have been claimed in this application. The first relief is to expedite the 2 caw-516.11 hearing of Writ Petition No.2446/2006. It is not possible to grant this request since the issue raised in the writ petition relates to the promotion of the applicant to the post of Deputy Engineer. Merely because the petition is admitted as back as in 2007 cannot be the basis to give precedence to this matter when there are other older pending matters in this Court and considering the nature of assignment, priority will have to be given to the family court matters. In the circumstances, prayer for early hearing of the petition is rejected. 2. The other relief claimed is to direct the respondent Nos.1 and 2 to consider the case of the applicant for promotion to the post of Deputy Engineer. It will be open to the applicant to make representation to the concerned authority who will consider the same on its own merits in accordance with law. We express no opinion with regard to the correctness of the claim in this behalf. In other words, the issue will have to be decided on its own merits. We hope and trust that the concerned authority will take decision on the representation expeditiously. With this observation, application is disposed of. (MRIDULA BHATKAR, J.) (A.M.KHANWILKAR, J.)