IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.1283 OF 2008 Mr. Mahadeo Narayan Nikam ... Petitioner Vs. Commissioner of Police, Mumbai and others ... Respondents Mr. Dheeraj Dhutmal for the petitioner. Ms. S.D. Shinde, Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. CORAM: SWATANTER KUMAR, C.J. & DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J. DATE : 23RD JANUARY, 2009 P.C.: The learned counsel appearing for the State submits that now the investigation has been completed, all the offenders have been arrested and the report in terms of section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code has been filed before the court of competent jurisdiction on 22nd January, 2009. 2. In view of the statement made, nothing survives in this petition as of today. 3. We dispose of this writ petition as having become infructuous. However, we grant liberty to the petitioner to file a suit for damages if so advised as writ court is not the competent court to consider the claim for damages in the facts of the present case and particularly when no such quantum of damages has even been specifically mentioned with appropriate justification. The learned trial court shall proceed with the case expeditiously and conclude the trial within a period of six months from today. CHIEF JUSTICE DR. D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.