1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5885 OF 2010 Kisanlal s/o Chunnilal Sancheti (Marwadi), Age 82 years, Occ. Agriculture, R/o Dangal Jawla, Taluka Patoda, District Beed. ... PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra, through the Secretary, Freedom Fighter Section, Mantralaya, Mumbai – 32 (Copy served on Govt. Pleader, High Court, Bench at Aurangabad) 2. The Collector, Beed, District Beed. 3. The Zilla Gaurav Samiti, Beed, District Beed. ... RESPONDENTS ..... Shri G.K. Naik Thigle, Advocate for the petitioner, Shri S.K. Kadam, A.G.P. for respondent Nos.1 & 2 Shri Bhushan B. Kulkarni, Advocate for respondent No.3. ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED: 27th July, 2010 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 2. We have heard Mr. G.K. Naik Thigle, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.P. for respondent Nos.1 and 2 and Mr. Bhushan Kulkarni, learned counsel for respondent No.3. 3. The relief which the petitioner has sought for in this petition is to direct the respondents to decide the application of the petitioner submitted some time in the year 2001, seeking freedom fighter’s pension. According to the petitioner, the petitioner had submitted an application earlier, but since the earlier application came to be misplaced by the respondents, the petitioner was called upon to submit a fresh application. The grievance of the petitioner is that the application submitted by the petitioner in the year 2001 is pending consideration with the respondents. 4. In that light of the matter, therefore, we are inclined to allow this petition and accordingly, allow this petition and direct the respondents to decide the application of the petitioner, if pending, in accordance with law, within period of three months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 5. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (P.V. HARDAS, J.)