1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO. 5334 OF 2010 (Arun Sopan Kute vs. The Akola District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. & Ors.) and WRIT PETITION NO. 5335 OF 2010 (Santosh Vishrama Taktode vs. The Akola District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. & Ors.) and WRIT PETITION NO. 5336 OF 2010 (Vinod Mahadeo Dhokne vs. The Akola District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. & Ors.) with WRIT PETITION NO. 5337 OF 2010 (Bhagwat Vishvanath Chande vs. The Akola District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. & Ors.) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. CORAM : B.P. DHARMADHIKARI, J. OCTOBER 29, 2010. Heard Shri Chande, learned counsel for the petitioners and Shri Tathod, learned counsel for respondents No. 1 & 2, Thakare, learned AGP for respondent No. 3. The challenge in all these petitions is to the order of Industrial Court, Akola, dated 01.10.2010 by which the prayer of respective petitioners to stay the advertisement published in December 2009 and also to discontinue respective respondents selected in pursuance thereto has been rejected. Shri Chande, learned counsel points out that the petitioners in Writ Petition No. 5336 and 5337 of 2010 have filed ULP Complaints in the year 2005 for regularization and those complaints are now at the stage of final arguments. The other two petitioners have not filed such complaint in the year 2005. They have filed 2 complaints now. His contention is, as respective petitioners are fully qualified and have also experience of working with Respondents No. 1 & 2, they ought to have been given precedence and regularized against existing vacancies. His contention is advertisement as published and then selection of third person is malafide and arbitrary. Shri Tathod, learned counsel and Shri Thakare, learned AGP for the respective respondents have supported the impugned order. Shri Tathod, learned counsel states that the petitioners applied in response to advertisement, were interviewed and then a better candidate has been selected. The candidate has already joined the employment way back in February 2010. It is apparent that in this situation, interim prayers as made are in fact asking for a final relief. However, looking to the fact that old complaints are already at the stage of final arguments and also alleged long service put in by the petitioners, I find it expedient to direct Industrial Court to decide fresh ULP Complaints filed i.e. in the year 2010 as early as possible and in any case within a period of six months from the date of communication of this order to it. The learned Member of Industrial Court shall permit the parties to file appropriate pleadings and documents and thereafter attempt to dispose of the matters as directed. With these directions, writ petitions 3 are disposed of. Needless to mention that all contentions of Shri Chande and Shri Tathod, learned counsel for the respective parties are kept open for consideration by the learned Member of Industrial Court, Akola on merits. JUDGE *GS.