1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1076 OF 2009 Dilip Abhimanyu Nagpure ....Petitioner. Versus The State of Maharashtra & others ....Respondents. Shri. Amol Shinde, Advocate (appointed) for petitioner. Shri. K.G. Patil, A.P.P. for respondents. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND R.K. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE : 14th December, 2009 ORAL JUDGMENT : [PER P.V. HARDAS, J.] 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. A letter sent by the petitioner came to be registered as Criminal Writ Petition and accordingly, we have appointed Advocate Shri. Amol Shinde as a counsel to represent the petitioner in this petition when this petition was placed before the Court. 3. The limited grievance of the petitioner in this petition is that he had submitted an application on 22.8.2008, seeking his transfer to the 2 Central Prison at Nagpur for various reasons which are disclosed in the said application. According to the petitioner, the aforesaid application is pending consideration with the respondent authorities and has not been decided. 3. On notice of this petition being issued to the respondents, respondents have filed their affidavit-in-reply. In the affidavit-in-reply at paragraph No. 3, it is stated that the Inspector General (Prison), Pune, has received several applications and the process of reviewing the situation is going on and a decision on the petitioner's application would be taken along with the applications of other prisoners, who are seeking transfer. Since the application is pending consideration with the Inspector General (Prison), Pune, we direct the respondents to decide the application of the petitioner in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 4. Rule is, thus, made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. We quantify the fees payable to Advocate Shri. Amol Shinde at Rs. 2,000/-. [ R.K. DESHPANDE, J. ] [ P.V. HARDAS, J.] ssc/criwp1076.09