1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.8409 OF 2008 ... Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Raigad ...Petitioner v/s. Raigad District Security Guards Board ...Respondent ... Mrs.Neeta V.Masurkar for the Petitioner. Mr.M.S.Topkar for the Respondents. ... CORAM: D.K.DESHMUKH, & K.K.TATED, JJ DATED:19th November, 2009 P.C.: 1. Rule. Returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of parties. 2 2. The grievance of the Petitioner, which is the Government of India undertaking, is against the direction issued by the Raigad District Security Guard Board dated 13-06-2008. The first part of the direction is that the Petitioner should get itself registered with Board and that it should engage security guards through the Board only. So far as the second part is concerned, the learned Counsel appearing for the Board states that if the Petitioner is engaging the guards supervised by the Directorate General of Resettlement, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, the Board cannot insist on the Petitioner to engage guards through the Board. However, he submits that even if the guards are taken through the agency supervised by the Directorate General of Resettlement, still registration of the 3 Petitioner with the Board is necessary in terms of the provisions of the Act and the scheme framed thereunder. 3. We have heard the learned Counsel for the Petitioner. We have also perused the record. We find that if the Petitioner is engaging security guards even through the security agency, registration of the Petitioner with the Board is necessary and therefore, the Petitioner will have to register itself with the Board. However, as the Petitioner has made it clear that he is engaging security guards only through the security agency supervised by the Directorate General of Resettlement, the Board cannot insist on the Petitioner to engage security guards through the Board. 4. In this view of the matter, 4 therefore, petition is disposed of with a direction to the Board not to insist on the Petitioner to engage security guards through the Board till the Petitioner engages the guards through the agency supervised by the Directorate General of Resettlement. However, the Petitioner will have to get itself registered with the Board and will have to apply for that purpose immediately. Rule made absolute accordingly. No order as to costs. (D.K.DESHMUKH, J.) (K.K.TATED, J.)