1 WP 715 of 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.715 of 2009 M/s.Parijat Hotels Pvt. Ltd. ..... Petitioner V/s. The Union of India and Ors. ..... Respondents Mr.Madhav Jamdar, for the petitioner. Mr.S.R.Rajguru a/w Mr.Y.R.Mishra, for Union of India. Mr.K.J.Presswala a/w Mr.Sandeep Goyal i/by M/s.Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt and Caroe, for respondent no.6. CORAM :P.B.MAJMUDAR & R.M.SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 13th July, 2010 P.C. 1. By way of this petition, the petitioner has prayed for setting aside the order passed by the respondent No.3 dated 18-07-2008, by which the application submitted by the predecessor in title of the petitioner for conversion of old land tenure to free hold land, has not been acceded to and the petitioner was asked to give/submit fresh application. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that he has received instructions from the petitioner to withdraw this petition with a view to file a fresh application before the appropriate authority. Since the petitioner wants to withdraw the petition, we permit the petitioner to do so. However, if any application is preferred on behalf of the petitioner, 2 WP 715 of 2009 the concerned authority may decide such application on its own merits and in accordance with law and may pass appropriate orders expeditiously and preferably within a period of four months from the receipt of the application from the petitioner. 3. Writ petition is disposed of as withdrawn. ( R.M.SAVANT, J. ) ( P.B.MAJMUDAR, J. )