caw718.11.odt 1/2 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. CIVIL APPLN. (W) NO.718/2011 IN WRIT PETN. NO.3767/2004 Deputy Conservator of Forests, Amravati and one another -vs- Smt.Prabha Prakash Mate and one another ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's Orders. or directions and Registrar's orders. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri M. P. Badar, learned counsel for the petitioners. Shri N. R. Saboo, learned counsel for the respondent No.1. Ms T. Khan, learned A.G.P. for respondent No.2. CORAM : R. M. SAVANT, J. DATED : 27/06/2011. The above civil application is filed by the applicant, who is the original respondent No.1 to the above petition, seeks a direction that the above petition may be disposed of finally by directing the Reference Court to proceed in the matter to finally decide the Reference case. Shri N. R. Saboo, learned counsel appearing for the applicant-respondent No.1 states that the Reference being Reference I.D.A. No.207/1995 is yet pending. He further submits that by virtue of the interim order passed in the said Reference proceedings, the applicant-original respondent No.1 is continuing working with the petitioners. Learned counsel for the respondents-original petitioners Shri Badar fairly submits that the applicant-original respondent No.1 is in fact continuing, by virtue of the said caw718.11.odt 2/2 interim order passed in the reference as well as by virtue of the orders passed in the above petition. In my view, therefore, the interest of justice would be served if the interim order, which is operating in favour of the applicant-respondent No.1 is continued, pending the Reference and the reference proceedings are directed to be decided within a particular time frame. Hence, the following directions. (i) The Labour Court, Amravati is directed to hear and decide Reference I.D.A. No.207/1995 by 31st of January, 2012. (ii) Pending the decision on the said Reference, the applicant-respondent No.1 would continue to be in the services of the respondents-original petitioners subject to the final outcome of the said Reference The civil application is accordingly allowed and disposed of. WRIT PETITION NO.3767/2004 In view of the order passed in Civil Application No.718/2011, the above writ petition stands disposed of, however, with liberty to the petitioners to urge the contentions raised in the above petition as regards the permission to retrench the applicant-respondent No.1 before the Reference Court. JUDGE KHUNTE