1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 750 OF 2010 Pratima Magaswargiya Mahila Mandal } Swayansevi Sanstha at Nandnaj } Taluka Parali Vaijinath, Dist. Beed } Through its President } Changulabai W/o Abhiman Mhaske } Age : 38 Years, Occ. : } R/o : Nandnaj, Taluka Parali Vaijinath } District : Beed. } .... PETITIONER V E R S U S 1. The State of Maharashtra } Through its Secretary, } Women and Child Development } Department, Maharashtra State } Mantralaya, Mumbai. } 2. The Commissioner for } Women and Child Development } Maharashtra State, } Mantralaya, Mumbai. } 3. The District Women and Child } Development Officer, } Beed Parishad, Beed. } .... RESPONDENTS WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 751 OF 2010 2 Rokdeshwar Bahu Uddeshiya } Sevabhavi Sanstha at } Dharmapuri, Taluka Parali Vaijinath, } District : Beed through its President } Shri Rangnath S/o Hariba Ghodke } Age : 45 Years, Occ. : } R/o : Dharmapuri, Taluka Parali Vaijinath } District : Beed. } .... PETITIONER V E R S U S 1. The State of Maharashtra } Through its Secretary, } Women and Child Development } Department, Maharashtra State } Mantralaya, Mumbai. } 2. The Commissioner for } Women and Child Development } Maharashtra State, } Mantralaya, Mumbai. } 3. The District Women and Child } Development Officer, } Beed Parishad, Beed. } .... RESPONDENTS Mr. N.P.Patil Jamalpurkar, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. N.B.Khandare, Govt. Pleader for State. CORAM : P.V.HARDAS & S.V.GANGAPURWALA, JJ. DATE OF JUDGMENT : 19/04/2010 3 ORAL JUDGMENT : ( PER – P.V.HARDAS, J.) 1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. With the consent of the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. The common grievance of the petitioners in both these petitions is that the proposal submitted by the petitioners dated 13/4/2005 seeking permission to open Balak Ashram are pending and have not been decided. In the light of the relief prayed for by the petitioners, we deem it appropriate to decide this petition finally at this stage. 3. We accordingly allow these petitions and direct the respondents to decide the proposals, if pending, in accordance with law, within period of four weeks from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioners. 4. Rule is thus made absolute in the above terms with no order as to costs. [ S.V.GANGAPURWALA ] [ P.V.HARDAS ] JUDGE JUDGE knp/WP 750 & 751.10 ( J ) 4