[2025:RJ-JP:37254] HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 12872/2025 The General Manager (HRM), Bank of Baroda, Head Office, Baroda Bhawan, R.C. Dutt Road, Alkapuri, Vadodara (Gujarat) 390007 ----Petitioner Versus Shri Gyaneshwar Nagar S/o. Shri Shankar Lal, R/o. A-309, Space Park, Phase-1, Mahalaxmi Nagar, Bombay Hospital, Indore (M.P.) 452016 ----Respondent For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Rupin Kala For Respondent(s) : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANEESH SHARMA Order 15/09/2025 1. Learned counsel for the petitioner upon instructions of his client seeks permission to withdraw the present writ petition with liberty to raise the grounds enumerated in the writ petition before the Controlling Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 ("Controlling Authority"); more particularly that an identical issue has been decided on 05.01.2022 by a Division Bench of this Court at principal seat, Jodhpur in D.B. Special Appeal Writ No.561/2020 titled as "Rajasthan Marudhara Gramin Bank, Jodhpur vs. The Appellate Authority". 2. Heard. 3. In view of submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner is permitted to withdraw the present writ [2025:RJ-JP:37254] (2 of 2) [CW-12872/2025] petition with liberty to raise all such grounds before the Controlling Authority. 4. However, it is observed that if the petitioner raises such grounds, it is expected of the Controlling Authority to decide the pending application while taking into account the reply filed by the petitioner, arguments so raised, as well as the judicial pronouncements placed before it including the order dated 05.01.2022 passed in D.B. Special Appeal Writ No.561/2020, on merits in accordance with law without being influenced by this order. 5. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty as prayed for. 6. All pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed of. (MANEESH SHARMA),J DEEPA-2