DR. REKHA RAMCHANDRA RAO vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS.

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Digitally signed by GAURI AMIT GAURI GAEKWAD AMIT GAEKWAD Date: 2025.11.17 915.WP-3485-2009.odt 18:39:01 +0530 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.3485 OF 2009 Dr. (Mrs.) Rekha Ramchandra Rao Age 58 years, Occupation : Service R/o Utkarsha Colony, College Road Malegaon Camp, District : Nashik ….Petitioner Versus 1. State of Maharashtra through the Secretary, Higher & Technical Education Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai – 400 032 2. The Director of Education Higher Education, Maharashtra State, Pune – 1 3. Joint Director of Education Higher Education, Pune Region, Pune – 1 4. The University of Pune at Pune through its Registrar 5. Mahatma Gandhi Vidyamandir, Malegaon Camp, District : Nashik through its Chairman/Secretary ….Respondents ---- Mr. Vinayak R. Kumbhar a/w. Mr. Rajendra B. Khaire i/b. Mrs. Ashwini Bandiwadekar for the Petitioner. Mr. P.P. Kakade, Addl. GP a/w. Ms. P.N. Diwan, AGP for the Respondent – State. Mr. Anilkumar Patil a/w. Ms. Zeel Jain, Mr. Digvijay Patil and Mr. Ashishraj Mane for Respondent No.5. ---- CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE & ASHWIN D. BHOBE, JJ. Gauri Gaekwad 1 of 13 915.WP-3485-2009.odt DATE : 13th NOVEMBER, 2025 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J.) : 1. We have considered the submissions of the learned Advocates/Addl. GP on behalf of the litigating parties before us. We have perused the extensive order passed by this Court [Coram : Smt. Ranjana Desai (as Her Ladyship then was) and A.A. Sayed (as His Lordship then was), JJ.] dated 24th September, 2009. The same reads as under : 1. The petitioner has approached this Court for a direction to the 1st respondent i.e. the Secretary Higher and Technical Education Department, Government of Maharashtra to fix her pension and other retirement benefi