JABALPUR, India, Feb. 25 -- Madhya Pradesh High Court issued the following judgment/order on Jan. 27:
Appellant is aggrieved by order dated 28.11.2025, whereby the writ petition filed by the appellant has been disposed of with the direction to the appellant to either seek intervention in MCC No.2445 of 2025 or file a petition against the impugned order before the Gwalior Bench.
Learned Senior Counsel for appellant submits that appellant had rightly approached the Jabalpur Bench in view of the fact that the orders those were impugned in the writ petition were passed from the Secretariat at Bhopal. He submits that since the Principal Bench exercises its territorial jurisdiction at Bhopal, the petition was very much maintainable before this Bench in terms of Article 226(1) of the Constitution of India.
Reference may be had to the judgment of this Court dated 14.11.2024 in Writ Appeal No.2228 of 2023 (Shrigovind Niranjan & Ors. Vs. State of M.P. & Ors.) 2024 MPHC JBP 56995, wherein this bench has held that the writ petition would be maintainable before the Bench within whose territorial jurisdiction the order impugned in the writ petition has been issued even though the order affects an employee who is posted in the territories outside the territorial jurisdiction of the said Bench.
In view of the above, the impugned order dated 28.11.2025 directing the petitioner to approach the Gwalior Bench cannot be sustained and is accordingly, set aside.
Petition is restored to its original number on the record of Writ Court. The Writ Court shall consider the same in accordance with law.
List before the appropriate Roster Bench on 04.02.2026.
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