Talekar and Associates

10/10/2024

A hollow shall forever remain as Ratan ji Tata passes away. He was a visionary, with nation building at his core, who lived his life with unparalleled humility. Let us all try to draw on his values and keep him alive, for he was one of the greatest humans to walk the planet.

15/08/2024

A very happy independence day everyone!

21/07/2024

On this Guru Purnima, we had an opportunity to have a conversation with our Mentor, Senior Advocate Satish Talekar. :)) Wishing everyone a very happy Guru Poornima.

28/12/2023

High Court grants interim protection to contractual employees working under National AIDS Control Programme:

The petitioners are working as Laboratory technicians in the establishment of the District AIDS Prevention and Control Units (DAPCUs) and Integrated Counselling and testing Centres (ICTSs) under the control of the Public Health Department of the Government of Maharashtra. Despite working for more than 10 years and repeated proposals by the Director of Health Services, the services of the petitioners are not regularised by the State Government.

The petitioners had approached the Hon'ble High Court as the Government had issued an advertisement to fill in the posts of laboratory technician by direct recruitment however by overlooking the claim of the petitioners regarding regularisation of their services.

The Hon’ble High Court of Bombay after hearing the Ld. Senior Counsel, Shri. S.B. Talekar appearing for the petitioners and the Ld Assistant Government Pleader for the State of Maharashtra, injuncted the respondents from displacing the petitioners from the said posts till the next hearing.

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25/12/2023

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas from all of us at Talekar and Associates

19/12/2023

Compulsory Aadhar for Darshan and Aarti passes at Shirdi Temple

Talekar and Associates (represented by Adv. Ajinkya Sanjay Kale and Adv. Pradnya Talekar ) through a PIL filed by social activist Sanjay Kale had approached the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad raising concerns over the prevalent security measures at the Sai Baba Temple, Shirdi. The Hon’ble High Court taking into consideration the increasing crime rates in Shirdi and the increased threats for lakhs and lakhs of devotees expressed their interests for finding an efficient solution for this. They also called upon security measures prevalent in the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) from the Andhra Pradesh High Court, so as to aid the framing of guidelines in Sai Baba Temple at Shirdi.
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In the meantime, the Chairman and the Principal District Judge, Ahmednagar submitted a confidential report to the High Court bringing to the notice that Darshan and Aarti passes are sold by ex-trustees/local representatives at premium rates to the devotees. Taking serious note of the said fact, in the order dated 10.11.2023 the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad held that the Darshan/Aarti passes would be issued to devotees after mentioning and verification of Aadhar number of each devotee. The further security measures to be implemented are to be decided on the next hearing after study of the report received from Registrar General of Andhra Pradesh High Court in respect of TTD.

16/12/2023

In keeping up with the updates regarding the regularisation of the post of Court Managers.

The Hon’ble High Court of Bombay had directed the High Court administration to make a proposal to the Maharashtra Government on urgent basis to regularise the service of court managers already appointed in the State. On being apprised by the High Court administration that the proposal is already sent to the Government, the Hon'ble Division Bench consisting of Shri. Justice G.S. Kulkarni and Hon'ble Shri. Justice Jitendra Jain directed the State Government to take a decision on the prososal so submitted by the High Court.

In the recent hearing on 13.12.2023, the Ld. Advocate General for the State of Maharashtra, Mr. Birendra Saraf appearing for the State informed the Bombay High Court that the State was committed to regularise the services of the existing Court Managers however they cannot proceed with creation of posts until they receive the necessary information from the High Court regarding the service conditions of such court managers.

Senior Adv. Shri. Talekar appearing for the petitioners pointed out that the entire framework with regard to the nature of the duties of the Court Managers was already framed by the High Court whereas the entire structure for creation of posts of court managers was already in place.

The Hon’ble High Court after considering the submissions made by the parties deemed it appropriate to direct the High Court administration to complete the rule making process as expeditiously as possible and in any case before the next date of hearing. The Hon'ble Division bench further deemed it proper to direct the Registry to place the orders passed by the division bench so that appropriate steps can be taken in that regard.

The matter is next posted for consideration on 25.01.2024, High on Board.

The state government has clarified that without the High Court providing the rules, it cannot approve the regularisation of the Court Managers' services appropriately.

17/11/2023

It was indeed a very happy Diwali for all those labourers and workers of Kannad Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana and for everyone at Talekar and Associates as the Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court in a historical order directed the Registry to distribute a sum of Rs. 16.12 crores to the ex-employees of the Karkhaana. We express immense gratefulness to all the staff members of the Registry who within a day of the order set up a system for verifying the names of these employees and their account details and succeeded at the colossal task of covering almost 800 employees on the first day itself.

More at: https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/gives-diwali-present-to-forlorn-sugar-mill-workers-labourers-1504074

24/10/2023

Wishing everyone a very happy Dussehra :)

24/10/2023

From all of us at Talekar and Associates a very happy dussehra to all of you out there!

27/09/2023

How many of us are aware of the existence of Court Managers in the Indian Judicial System?

Court managers, a concept prevalent through UK, USA and Australia, were introduced as an instrument to increase the efficiency of the administration of the judiciary by reducing the burden of judges. They are expected to have technical expertise in the arena of management and administration and would carry out functions like helping in allotment of cases based on statistics, managing human/physical resources etc.

It was in the year 2012, the then Hon’ble Chief Justice of India in consultation with the Minister of Law and Justice formulated the National Court management Systems - Policy and Action plan to enhance quality, responsiveness and timeliness of the Indian judiciary. The post of court managers was created in every judicial district, and were expected to be qualified with MBA degree to assist the judiciary in administrative functions.

Over the years, the court managers and the judiciary took many efforts to ensure regularisation of their services instead of being continued from time to time on contractual basis. Whereas, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in an interlocutory Application in the All India Judges Association v. Union of India had directed that the Court Managers working in any district to be regularised by the State government. Despite the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court and the several representations of the court managers, no steps were taken for regularisation of their services as well as the fixation of pay-scales. All these years, the petitioners were deprived of leave and service benefits as available to other employees in the service of judiciary or the Government.

Adv. Satish Talekar and Adv. Madhavi Ayyappan while appearing for the Court managers in the Hon’ble Bombay High Court, highlighted the main grievance of the petitioners other than the aspect of regularisation and pay-scale being invisible and working with rather undignified conditions of service in the judicial system for the last 10 years.

The Hon’ble Bombay High Court in its order dated 20.09.2023, agreed with the contentions raised by Adv. Satish Talekar and stated that further appropriate steps need to e taken by the State Government to comply with the mandate of the orders of Supreme Court. Therefore, the High Court administration was directed to make a proposal to the Maharashtra Government on urgent basis to regularise the service of court managers already appointed in the State.

This would be a game changer for the judiciary and ultimately the litigants who depend on it. Imagine if experts used AI, machine learning and big data to make independent determination of which judge should have which roster, which matters having similar issues should be grouped together for hearing, what physical and technological facilities and infrastructure should be added to the courts and the like. The efficiency of our justice delivery system would change drastically.

The Bombay High Court recently directed its administration to make a proposal to the Maharashtra government to regularise the services of court managers already