-1- IN IN IN THE THE THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL CIVIL CIVIL APPELLATE APPELLATE APPELLATE JURISDICTION JURISDICTION JURISDICTION WRIT WRIT WRIT PETITION PETITION PETITION NO.6548 OF 2007 NO.6548 OF 2007 NO.6548 OF 2007 The State of Maharashtra and ors. ...Petitioners v/s Shri Chandrakant P. Chowdhary ...Respondent Mr N.P. Deshpande, AGP for Petitioners. Mr C.G. Gavnekar for Respondent. CORAM : D.K. DESHMUKH AND V.M. KANADE JJ. DATE : 14TH JANUARY 2008. -2- P.C. :- 1. By consent of parties, petition is disposed off in following terms. 2. The respondent shall be treated to have been reinstated in service as Jail Guard. The Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Western Region, Pune, who is the Competent Authority under the Maharashtra Civil Services (Joining Time, Foreign Service and Payments During Suspension, Dismissal and Removal) Rules 1981, shall within a period of six weeks from today determine the amount of back wages to which the respondent would be entitled in accordance with the above referred Service Rules and any amount to which the respondent may be entitled shall be paid to him in accordance with law within a period of six weeks from the date of the order of the Competent Authority. 3. While deciding the question, the Competent Authority shall go by the provisions of the law and ignore the order passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal which is impugned in the petition. If the respondent feels aggrieved by the order of the Competent Authority, he shall be free to -3- challenge it in the Court of Law. Petition is disposed off. . Parties to act on the copy of this order duly authenticated by the Sheristedar / Private Secretary of the Court. . Certified copy expedited. ( D.K. DESHMUKH J.) ( V.M. KANADE J.)