SQP IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.4975 OF 2011 The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ...Petitioners Versus Dnyaneshwar Vithoba Dhatrak & Anr. ...Respondents ...... Mr.Nitin Deshpande, A.G.P. for Petitioners. Ms.S.P.Manchekar for Respondent No.1. ...... CORAM:- A.M.KHANWILKAR AND R.Y.GANOO, JJ. DATED:- JULY 22, 2011. P.C. 1. This Petition takes exception to the decision of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai dated 25th November, 2010 in Original Application No.898/2010. The apprehension of the petitioners is that relying on the observation in the impugned decision dated 25th November, 2010, the respondent No.1 is likely to assert in future that he should be treated as senior to other Sales Tax Inspectors who were similarly situated as that of the respondent but did not appear for the examination conducted in June, 2009. 2. To assuage this concern, Counsel for the respondent No.1, on instructions of the respondent No.1, who is present in Court, states that the respondent has no intention whatsoever to claim seniority over other Inspectors, who could not and did not appear in the examination conducted in June, 2009. The respondent, however, submits that the respondent will claim seniority along with the candidates similarly situated who appeared in the examination conducted in January, 2011. The statement so made by the respondent is accepted. 3. In view of this statement, learned A.G.P. submits that the Petition be disposed of. Ordered accordingly. (R.Y.GANOO, J.) (A.M.KHANWILKAR, J.)