ORDER :

AVINASH G. GHAROTE, J.

1. This full Bench has been constituted by the Hon’ble the Chief Justice, for answering the following two questions :-

(1) Whether in a given facts and circumstances of the present case, principles of Promissory Estoppel and Legitimate Expectation would apply ?

(2) Whether the impugned Government Resolution dated 01/07/2016 has been retrospectively applied to the case of the petitioner ?

2. The need for constituting the Full Bench was felt as the learned Division Bench ( Shri Sunil B. Shukre and Shri Anil S. Kilor, JJ.) in Umesh Burande’s case [Writ Petition No.4832/2018] while considering the effect of the Government Resolution dated 1/7/2016 in the background of the earlier Government Resolution dated 30/4/2005, and the judgment of another learned Division Bench of this Court ( Shri Prasanna B. Varale and Shri Nitin W. Sambre, JJ.) in Sandip Phulchand Tandale Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others (Writ Petition No.4409/2019, dated 22/4/2019), which also considered the above two Government Resolutions and had held that since the policy of the year 2