wp8008-11.sxw 1 spb IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 8008 OF 2011 Shri Avinash Rajaram Jadhav & others ... Petitioners. V/s. Shri Ramesh Shankar Bhakre & Ors. ... Respondents. --- WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 8020 OF 2011 Shri Milind Rajaram Jadhav & others ... Petitioners. V/s. Shri Ramesh Shankar Bhakre & Ors. ... Respondents. --- WRIT PETITION NO. 8021 OF 2011 Smt. Mangala Hindurao Salunkhe & others ... Petitioners. V/s. Shri Ramesh Shankar Bhakre & Ors. ... Respondents. --- Mr. Amit Sale for the Petitioners in all the Petitions. Mr. Sanjeev P. Kadam for the Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 in all the Petitions. --- CORAM:- G.S. GODBOLE, J. DATED :- 22nd DECEMBER, 2011. P.C. : 1 Heard Mr. Sale, Advocate for the Petitioners, Mr. Kadam, Advocate for the Respondent Nos.1 to 3. 2 The contention of the Petitioners that the contesting Respondents wp8008-11.sxw 2 have challenged only a finding recorded against them is prima facie incorrect. The contesting Respondents were aggrieved by the appointment of the first Board of Trustees and therefore, they were entitled to file Applications under section 72 (1) of the BPT Act, 1950. No error of jurisdiction is committed. 3 Hence, there is no merit in these Writ Petitions. The Petitions are dismissed. 4 It is, however, clarified that all the rival contentions of the parties on merits of the main controversy involved in the Applications filed before the District Court are kept open to be agitated at the time of final hearing of these Applications and this order should not be construed as rejection of the contentions of the Petitioners on merits of the controversy. [G. S. GODBOLE, J.]