1 W.P. No.7345 of 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD Writ Petition No.7345 Of 2010 Ajaz Ahmed Khan s/o Abdullah Khan And Others. .. Petitioners. Versus State of Maharashtra & Others. .. Respondents. -------- Shri. N.V. Gaware, Advocate for the petitioners. Shri. K.M. Suryawanshi, Assistant Government Pleader, for respondent Nos.1 to 3 . Shri. A.V. Patil, Advocate, holding for Shri. V.D. Gunale, Advocate, for respondent Nos.4 and 5. -------- CORAM: D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. DATE: 8th AUGUST 2011 PER COURT : 1) Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2) The petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs. "(B) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or directions in the nature of writ of mandamus directing the respondent Nos.4 & 5 to forthwith forward the proposals of 2 W.P. No.7345 of 2010 the petitioners for grant of senior grade pay scale to the petitioners, to the respondent Nos.2 and 3 and further direct the respondent Nos.2 and 3 to decide the said proposals within stipulated period and for that purpose issue necessary order." 3) Mr. Patil, learned counsel for respondent Nos.4 and 5, on instructions, submits that they have forwarded petitioners' proposals to respondent Nos.2 and 3 vide their communication dated 20-6-2011. Mr. Gaware, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that there were certain deficiencies in the proposals forwarded by respondent Nos.4 and 5 and, therefore, the petitioners may and/or respondent Nos.4 and 5 be permitted to remove the deficiencies and/or submit relevant documents, if any, to respondent Nos.2 and 3 within time frame. 4) Having considered the submissions of the learned counsel for the parties we are satisfied that, following order shall meet the ends of justice. 5) It is open to the petitioners to submit documents/additional documents to respondent Nos.4 and 3 W.P. No.7345 of 2010 5 in support of the proposals forwarded by them within a period of two weeks from today. After the petitioners submit documents/additional documents to respondent No.4 and 5, they shall forward the same to respondent Nos.2 and 3 within a period of two weeks therefrom. Respondent Nos.2 and 3 shall consider and decide the petitioners' proposals as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of the documents that will be forwarded by respondent Nos.4 and 5 in pursuance of this order. 6) If the petitioners do not have any documents in their custody it is open for them to submit list of such documents and in that event respondent Nos.4 and 5 shall forward those documents from their custody to respondent Nos.3 and 4. It is needless to mention that, it is a duty of respondent Nos.4 and 5 to remove deficiencies, if any, in the proposals submitted by them to respondent Nos.2 and 3, and if any such deficiencies are brought to their notice they shall remove them within a period of two weeks so as to enable the concerned authority to pass orders on the proposals within the 4 W.P. No.7345 of 2010 stipulated time. 7) With these observations the writ petition is disposed of. Authenticated copy duly signed by the Registry shall be given to the counsel for the parties. Sd/- Sd/- (S.B. DESHMUKH, J.) (D.B. BHOSALE, J.) rsl