( 1 ) WP 10671/10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 10671 OF 2010 1 Leena w/o Prafulla Dhase, Age 35 years, Occ. Service, R/o Siddheshwar Housing Society, Pipe Line Road,Savedi, Ahmednagar PETITIONERS 2 Seema d/o Bharatrao Pandit, Age 30 years, Occ. Service, R/o. 23, anandnagar, Gulmohar road, Savedi, Ahmednagar V E R S U S 1 The State of Maharashtra, Through it’s Secretary, Department of Secondary Education, Mantralaya, Mumbai - 32 RESPONDENTS 2 The Director of Education Officer, Maharashtra, Pune 3 The Deputy Director of Education, Pune Region, Pune 4 The Education Officer (Secondary), Zilla Parishad, Ahmednagar 5 Anand Secondary School, Anandnagar, Gulmohar Road, Ahmednagar, Through it’s Headmistress Shri S.R. Shirsat, Advocate holding for Shri S.S. Jadhavar, Advocate for the petitioners Shri N.R. Shaikh, AGP for respondents No. 1 to 4 CORAM : D.B. BHOSALE & A.V. NIRGUDE,JJ. DATED : 9th March, 2011 ( 2 ) WP 10671/10 ORAL ORDER : 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the parties. The principal prayer made by the petitioners in the writ petition, reads as under : “B) To issue writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction,, the respondent Nos. 1 to 4 may kindly be directed to take decision on the proposals submitted by the respondent No.5, seeking sanction / permission for one additional division of 8th to 10th standard classes each” 2. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners would be satisfied if the directions are issued to the respondents to consider their proposal within time frame. We are inclined to issue such direction. However, we make it clear that we have not examined merits of the demand made by the petitioners of additional division. Further, we have not examined whether the proposal made by the petitioners is in proper format. In view thereof, we are satisfied that the following order would meet the ends of justice : ORDER 1. The concerned officers of respondent Nos. 1 to 4 shall consider the proposal submitted by respondent No. 5 for additional division of 8th to 10th standard classes expeditiously, provided the proposal made by the petitioners is found to be in the prescribed format. We hope and trust that the concerned officers of respondent No. 1 to 4 shall decide the proposal, in accordance with Law. While passing this order, we shall not ( 3 ) WP 10671/10 be understood to have issued any direction on merits of the case and the concerned authority shall take the decision in accordance with Law. 3. With these observations, Writ Petition stands disposed of. ( A. V. NIRGUDE,J. ) ( D.B. BHOSALE,J. ) SRM/