1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 417 OF 2008 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 5353 OF 2008 (Smt. Kamla Shivshankarlal Jaiswal and another .v. State of Maharashtra and others) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's Orders and Registrar's orders. Shri Anand Parchure, Advocate for the appellants. Smt. S.S. Wandile, AGP for the respondent Nos.1 and 2. Shri A.S. Manohar, Advocate for the respondent Nos.3 and 4. CORAM : A.P. LAVANDE AND PRASANNA B. VARALE, JJ. 04TH FEBRUARY, 2009. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the respective parties. By this appeal, the appellants take exception to the order dated 18.12.2007 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ Petition No. 5353 of 2008, by which the petition filed by the appellants has been dismissed. This Court by interim order dated 30th December, 2008, granted stay to the effect and operation of the order passed by the Collector, Amravati, by which license granted to the petitioners was suspended with effect from 31st December, 2008. This interim order was continued on 15th January, 2009 and as such presently is in operation. 2 Shri Anand Parchure, the learned Counsel for the appellants states that the license granted to the appellants is to expire on 31st March, 2009 and as such the appeal filed by the appellants before the respondent No.1 – Commissioner, State Excise, Mumbai be directed to be disposed of before 31st March, 2009, by maintaining the interim order passed by this Court. Although the prayer made by the appellants has been vehemently opposed by Shri A.S. Manohar, the learned Counsel for the respondent Nos.3 and 4, we find that this is a fit case in which the appeal deserves to be disposed of by giving direction to the Commissioner, State Excise, Mumbai to dispose of the appeal filed by the appellants before the Commissioner, State Excise, Mumbai against the order dated 28.11.2008 passed by the respondent No.2 suspending the license granted to the appellants before 31st March, 2009, by maintaining the interim order granted by this Court. Accordingly, the Commissioner, State Excise, Mumbai is directed to dispose of the appeal preferred by the appellants against the order dated 28.11.2008 passed by the respondent No.2 expeditiously and in any case on or before 31st March, 2009. The appellants and the respondent Nos.3 and 4 either personally or through their Counsel shall appear before the Commissioner, 3 State Excise, Mumbai on 18th February, 2009 at 03:00 p.m. The parties shall not be given separate notices. The Letters Patent Appeal stands disposed of in aforesaid terms with no order as to costs. CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 9611 OF 2008 In view of the disposal of the appeal, the application has become infructuous and disposed of as such. JUDGE JUDGE *rrg.