- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5681/2009 Laxmanrao Yadavrao Shinde. ...Petitioner.. Versus The State of Maharashtra & others. ...Respondents... ..... Shri D.P. Palodkar, Advocate for petitioner. Shri N.N. Jadhav, AGP for respondent no.1. Mrs.Manjusha A. Deshpande, Advocate for respondent nos.2 & 3. ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & A.V. POTDAR, JJ. DATE: 27.08.2009 PER COURT: Heard learned counsel for the parties. This is a petition filed by the petitioner praying for issuance of directions to respondent nos.1 & 2 to decide the representations of the petitioner dated 10.7.2009 and 17.7.2009 and also prays for directing the respondents to take action against the persons directly or indirectly responsible for deaths of various people due to negligence on their part in - 2 - carrying out Municipal works. The petitioner also prays for issuance of a writ directing the respondent nos.1 & 2 to immediately take action against guilty officers / contractors of the Municipal Corporation, Aurangabad, who are directly or indirectly responsible for deaths of several people due to negligence on their part. The petitioner also prays for directing the respondent nos.1 & 2 to conduct a detailed inquiry of all the cases of negligence in which innocent people have either lost their lives or are injured and further prays for directing the respondent nos.1 & 2 to take immediate action against all such officers. At the outset, Shri Palodkar, the learned counsel for the petitoner, states that the petitioner restricts the prayer in this petition only insofar as it is prayed for directing the respondents to decide the representations, and withdraws this petition in respect of other prayers, with liberty to file appropriate proceedings after the decision of the representations. Mrs.Manjusha Deshpande, the learned counsel for respondent nos.2 & 3 states on instructions that the representations filed by the petitioner would be decided in accordance with law within eight weeks from today. On the strength of the said statement, Shri Palodkar, the learned counsel for the petitioner, seeks to withdraw the petition. We accept the aforesaid statement made on behalf of the respondent nos.2 & 3 as an undertaking to the Court and accordingly this writ petition as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty as prayed for, with no order as to costs. (A.V. Potdar, J.) (P.V. Hardas, J.) ndk/c278093