Balanced News: Maha: HC Quashes CM Shinde’s Decision Over Recruitment in Co-op Bank; Slams Him for Interference

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has quashed the decision of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to stay the recruitment process of a co-operative bank, noting that the CM has no powers to review or modify the calls taken by the minister concerned. The order was passed on a petition filed by Chandrapur District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. and a businessman named Santoshsingh Rawat, who had been elected as its chairman, opposing Shinde’s decision. The court held that the chief minister has no independent power assigned under the “Rules of Business and Instructions” to review or modify the decision taken by the in-charge minister.