1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO. 4151 OF 2009 Narsu Gundiram Shinde, Age 66 years, Occu.Agril., R/o Sarsa, Tq. Latur, District Latur At present r/o Borgaon (Somnath), Tq. Ambajogai, Dist.Beed .. Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Maharashtra Through Secretary, Land & Revenue Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai 2. The Collector, Latur 3. The Tahsildar, Latur .. Respondents Shri P.B.Gapat, Advocate for petitioner Shri N.N.Jadhav, AGP for respondents CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND A.V. POTDAR, JJ DATE : 29th JULY 2009 2 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER P.V.HARDAS , J ] 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. We have heard Shri Gapat, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Shri Jadhav, learned Assistant Government Pleader for respondents 1 to 3. 3. The petitioner by this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India prays for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing respondent Nos.2 and 3 to decide the application of the petitioner which is said to be pending. The petitioner, it appears, had submitted an application before the respondents for correcting the revenue record. The aforesaid application came to be submitted by the petitioner to respondent No.3 on 10.6.2008. The aforesaid application is pending and in the light of that, therefore, we are inclined to allow this petition. 4. We accordingly allow this petition and direct the respondents to decide the said application filed by the petitioner, 3 if pending, in accordance with law, within period of three months from today and communicate the decision thereon to the petitioner. 5. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. ( A.V.POTDAR ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE (vvr/4151.09wp) 4