1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Writ Petition No.959 of 2007 (Anil Dattatraya Nimbalkar .vs. State of Mah. and anr.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Office Notes, Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions : Court's or Judge's orders and Registrar's orders. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CORAM : D.D.Sinha and Mrs.Vasanti A. Naik, JJ. DATE : February 08, 2008. Heard Mr. C.A.Joshi, Adv. for the Petitioner and Mr.Sonak, Assistant Government Pleader for the Respondent No.1. Counsel for the petitioner states that grievance of the petitioner in the present Writ Petition is against the decision taken by the Administrative Committee of this Court whereby the application of the petitioner for appointment to the post of Civil Judge (Jr.Dn.) was not considered and the petitioner was also not given opportunity of explaining his side of the story before taking such decision by the Administrative Committee. Considered the contentions. In the instant case, it is not in dispute that the petitioner was prosecuted for the offences punishable u/ss. 354 and 448 of the Indian Penal Code. Though the petitioner was acquitted in the criminal case, that by itself does not take away power of the Administrative Committee to reject candidature of the petitioner. Even otherwise, it is expected that 2 the candidate who is about to be selected as a Judicial Officer must have an unimpeachable and clean record. In the circumstances, the petition suffers from lack of merits. Hence, the same is dismissed. JUDGE JUDGE ssj