1 W.P. No.4754 of 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD Writ Petition No.4754 Of 2011 Uttam S/o Vaijnath Chakrawar & Others. .. Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra And Others. .. Respondents. -------- Shri. G.R. Gadhe, holding for Shri. P.R. Katneshwarkar, Advocate for petitioners. Shri. N.B. Khandare, Government Pleader, for respondent No.1. -------- CORAM: D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. DATE: 18h JULY 2011 PER COURT : 1) Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri. Khandare, learned Government Pleader for respondent No1. 2) We have perused the writ petition and the prayer clause (A) therein. Learned counsel for the petitioner does not press other prayers in the petition. Prayer clause (A) reads thus: "[A] By issuing writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or directions in the like nature under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to direct the respondent no.1 that, he shall decide the revision petition/file bearing No.MMS/09/79359, dated 7-8-2009 within stipulated period as this Hon'ble Court deems fit." 2 W.P. No.4754 of 2011 3) Having regard thereto, we are satisfied that the writ petition can be conveniently disposed of without issuing notices to respondent Nos.2 and 3. Hence we pass the following order. 4) Respondent No.1 shall consider and decide the revision (Exhibit J to the writ petition) filed by the petitioner under section 451 of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act 1949 for the reliefs prayed for therein, as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of 12 weeks from the date of receipt of this order. It is needless to mention that respondent No.1 shall decide the revision after giving an opportunity of hearing to respondent Nos.2 and 3. The respondent No.1 shall decide the revision on merits in accordance with law. All contentions including the issue of maintainability of the revision are kept open. We make it clear that we have not examined merits of the case while passing this order. The petitioner is directed to communicate this order to the respondent Nos.2 and 3 within a period of two weeks from today by registered post AD / hand delivery. 5) With these observations the writ petition is disposed of. Sd/- Sd/- (S.B. DESHMUKH, J.) (D.B. BHOSALE, J.) rsl