FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 976 OF 2011 "Sunil Rakhmajirao Jadhav Vs. Union of India and another." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. H.A. Joshi, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. R.P. Phatke, Advocate for respondent. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATE :- 19TH OCTOBER, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2] The petitioner challenges the oder dated 7.6.2010 thereby rejecting the application filed by the petitioner for appointment as Notary, on the ground that there is no counter signature of two prominent inhabitants from that area. 3] In the affidavit in reply filed by the respondents, it is stated that the proposal of the petitioner was not found to be in conformity since the petitioner has not mentioned that the persons, who have countersigned the application of the petitioner, are prominent inhabitants of the area. 4] We find that the approach of the respondents is totally hyper-technical. Perusal of the application filed by the FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 976 OF 2011 "Sunil Rakhmajirao Jadhav Vs. Union of India and another." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 petitioner reveals that in addition to the counter signature by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Branch Manager of State Bank of Hyderabad and one merchant – AjayDeep New Town Developers Pvt. Ltd., Aurangabad, one Architect, there are signature of two prominent inhabitants. 5] In that view of the matter, the impugned order dated 7.6.2010, is quashed and set aside. The matter is remitted back to the respondents to consider the proposal of the petitioner afresh in the light of what has been observed hereinabove. The same shall be within two months from today. Rule made absolute in above terms with no orders as to costs. [M.T. JOSHI,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-