1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR W.P.No.6316 of 2006 (Shri Prasad s/o Mahipsingh Thakur .vs. Director of Municipal Administration and Ors.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Office Notes, Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions : Court's or Judge's orders and Registrar's orders. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CORAM : D.D.Sinha and Mrs. Vasanti A. Naik, JJ. DATE : 18.03.2008. Heard Mr. A.C.Dharmadhikari Adv. for the Petitioner, Mrs.Dangre, Assistant Government Pleader for the Respondent Nos. 1 to 4 and 7 and Mr.Kothari, Adv. for the Respondent No.5. In the present petition, the petitioner is seeking direction to the respondents to finalise the pension case of the petitioner who retired from service on 31.8.2005. It is contended that the petitioner time and again approached the respondent no.5-Management and made requests to forward the proposal of the petitioner to the competent Authority for fixing of the pension and pensionary benefits for which the petitioner is eligible, however, the Management failed to take appropriate steps in this regard and therefore, the petitioner was required to approach this Court for necessary direction. Mr.Kothari, Adv. for the Respondent No.5-Management has stated that the Management finally fowarded the proposal of the 2 petitioner in proper proforma along with necessary documents to the respondent no.2 on 4.3.2008. Mrs. Dangre, Assistant Government Pleader states that since the proposal of the petitioner for fixing the pension and pensionary benefits is received by the respondent no.2 recently, some time is necessary to finalise the pension case of the petitioner including the pensionary benefits to which the petitioner is entitled. She further submitted that the whole exercise will be done at the earliest. In the backdrop of the above referred facts, it is evident that the Management ought to have forwarded pension case of the petitioner to the competent Authority within time in order to avoid hardships to the petitioner. However, since the proposal is already forwarded by the Management to the respondent no.2, we direct the respondent no.2 to consider the same on its own merits, according to law and procedure applicable in this regard, as early as possible and not beyond the period of six weeks from the date of communication of this order. With these directions, we dispose of the Writ Petition. JUDGE JUDGE ssj