(1) WP 6722.2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 6722 OF 2011 Punam Prabhakar Vibhute PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra and ors. RESPONDENTS ..... Mr. Swapnil S. Rathi, Advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. V.D. Rakh, A.G.P. for the Respondent-State. Mr. R.V. Ghuge, Advocate for the respondent no.5 ..... CORAM : B.R. GAVAI AND M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 6TH SEPTEMBER, 2011 ORAL ORDER: 1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2. The limited grievance of the petitioner is that though the petitioner's claim for considering the validity of belonging to Other Backward Class is pending before the respondent no.3-Committee, the result of the petitioner's appearance in 1st and 2nd semesters of 2nd year of Engineering is not declared by the respondent no.5-University. 3. It is the second round of litigation. By an (2) WP 6722.2011 earlier order dated 24.3.2011 passed in Writ Petition no.2031 of 2011, this Court had directed the respondent no.3-Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner within a period of six (6) months. It has been further directed that the respondent nos. 4 and 5 shall declare the petitioner's result of 1st year final examination. 4. In the meantime, the petitioner has also appeared for 1st and 2nd semesters of 2nd year Engineering, however, the petitioner's claim is not yet decided by the respondent no.3 and the result of the petitioner's appearance has not been declared. 5. It is not in the hands of the petitioner as to within how much time the respondent no.3 should decide the claim of the petitioner. It appears that though this Court had directed the Committee to decide the caste claim within a time frame, the same has not been done so far. 6. In that view of the matter, we allow the Petition, directing the respondents 4 and 5 to declare the result of the petitioner's examination of (3) WP 6722.2011 1st and 2nd semesters of 2nd year Engineering. It is further directed that till the caste claim of the petitioner is decided, the petitioner will be permitted to appear for all the examination/s and the result of such examination/s would be declared by respondent no.5-University without requiring the petitioner to file any further Petition. 7. It is further directed that in the event any adverse order to the interests of the petitioner is passed by the respondent no.3-Committee, the same shall not be given effect to for a period of four (4) weeks from the receipt of the communication. 8. Rule is made absolute in the aforesaid terms with no order as to costs. Sd/- Sd/- [M. T. JOSHI, J.] [B. R. GAVAI, J.] arp/