1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.3072 OF 2010 Suresh s/o Ramchandra Pawar, Age : 42 years, Occ. Agril., R/o Matkuli, Tq. Ashti, District Beed ..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra, Through the Secretary, Revenue & Forest Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai 2. The Collector, Beed, District Beed 3. The District Rehabilitation Officer, Beed, Dist. Beed ..RESPONDENTS Mr D.R. Jayabhar, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr S.V. Kurundkar, Addl. G.P. for respondents CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND S.V. GANGAPURWALA, JJ DATE : 20th April, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER P.V.HARDAS , J ] Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2 2. By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India the petitioner prays for issuance of a writ directing respondent no. 3 to issue necessary certificate to the petitioner as belonging to project affected persons category. 3. It appears that an application came to be submitted on 18.1.2010 praying therein for issuance of the aforesaid certificate. According to the petitioner, the said application has remained pending and has not been decided. The petitioner claims to be a project affected person as the land of the petitioner came to be acquired by the respondents for construction of a village tank. 4. In that light of the matter, therefore, we allow this petition and direct the respondents to decide the application of the petitioner, if the same is pending, within two months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 5. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. ( S.V. GANGAPURWALA ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE amj/wp3072.10 3