238-WP-859-14.DOC IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.859 OF 2014 Vittal Baburao Dhikale And Ors ...Petitioners Versus The State Of Maharashtra, Through Chieff Secretary, General Administrative Dept And Ors ...Respondents _______ Ms. Priyanka Shaw i/b. Kirankumar Phakade, for Petitioners. Mr. O.A. Chandurkar, Addl.GP a/w. Smt. N.M.Mehra, AGP, for Respondent/State. _______ CORAM: G. S. KULKARNI & AARTI SATHE, JJ. DATE: 25 JUNE 2026 P.C. 1. This Petition is listed today for final hearing. 2. Learned AGP submits that the impugned Government Resolution has already been upheld by this Court in the Full Bench decision in Deshmukh Dilipkumar Bhagwan & Others v. State of Maharashtra, 2019 (3) Mh.L.J. 903, decided on 30th April 2019. 3. In view of the aforesaid binding decision, further adjudication of the present Petition is not called for. 4. However, if any issue is found to survive notwithstanding the aforesaid decision, liberty is reserved to the Petitioner to apply for revival of the present Writ Mane 238-WP-859-14.DOC Petition. 5. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. No costs. (AARTI SATHE, J.) (G. S. KULKARNI, J.) Mane