1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Criminal Writ Petition No.143/2006 [Ku. Neeta d/o Anandrao Madavi and another .vrs. The State of Maharashtra and another] ................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ................................................................................................................................................................... CORAM : A.P. LAVANDE & P.D. KODE, JJ. DATE : JUNE 17, 2010. Heard Mr. S.Z. Sonbhadre, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. N.W. Sambre, learned Public Prosecutor for the respondents. The petitioners have filed the present petition by way of Public Interest Litigation alleging large scale corruption, illegalities and irregularities in the implementation of the scheme known as “Karmavir Dadasaheb Gaikwad Sabilkaran Va Swabhiman Yojna” which was framed with an intention to uplift the people belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Nava Buddha by providing them agricultural lands which could be cultivated. On behalf of the respondents, Principal Secretary of the Department, filed affidavit stating 2 therein that a detailed enquiry would be conducted and issue would be re-examined in the light of the statement made by the petitioners. The enquiry was to be completed within a period of four months from 20.2.2009 which was extended from time to time at the instance of the respondents. In order to complete the enquiry, initially several agencies were appointed. However, the said agencies would not achieve the purpose and ultimately the work of collection of data was handed over to the various Social Welfare Colleges in Districts, who were provided with specimen proforma. The said colleges collected the information in terms of the questionnaire in the said proforma. The information and data collected from the said colleges was summarized by the Divisional Social Welfare Officer, Amravati Division, Amravati and forwarded to the Principal Secretary, Social Justice, Cultural Affairs and Special Assistance Department by communication dated 14.6.2010. According to the respondents, the scheme has been properly implemented and the grievances made by the petitioners have been redressed. 3 In affidavit filed on behalf of the Special District Social Welfare Officer, Yavatmal, it has been specifically stated that copy of the report would be forwarded to the petitioners and they could be given opportunity of hearing in respect of the grievance made by them before taking final decision. In view of the above, we propose to dispose of the petition by directing the respondents to forward the copy of the report to the petitioners within a period of four weeks from today. Respondent no.1 shall give an opportunity of hearing in respect of the grievances made by the petitioners and shall take final decision within a period of six months from today and shall communicate the decision to the petitioners within a period of four weeks from the date of decision. Needless to mention that in event the petitioners are aggrieved by the final decision, the petitioners are at liberty to take appropriate action, as may be available in law. The petition stands disposed of. 4 Criminal Application (APPW) No.43/2009 In view of disposal of main criminal writ petition, this application does not survive. Hence, the application stands disposed of. JUDGE JUDGE Gulande