1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION rpa WRIT PETITION NO. 256 OF 2010 Smt. Rizwana Bano Riyas Ahmed & Ors. .. Petitioners. v/s. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents. .... Ms. Anjali Awasthi a/w. Ms. Sujit More for the Petitioners. Mr.G. /w. Mattos for Respondent Nos. 3 and 4. Ms. S. Shreedharan, AGP for Respondent Nos. 1,2, 5 and 6. Mr. S. G. Surana for Respondent No. 7. .... CORAM : S. J. KATHAWALLA, J. DATE : MARCH 10, 2010. P.C. The following order is passed by consent of the parties. :: O R D E R :: i. The Chief Officer of the Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board, shall decide the eligibility of the Petitioners de novo without being influenced by any earlier order passed by any Authority. 2 ii. Parties shall be at liberty to raise all contentions before the Chief Officer of the Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board. iii. The Chief Officer shall decide the matter, within a period of three weeks from today. iv. In the meantime, parties shall maintain status-quo. 2. In view of the above order which is passed by consent, the order passed by the learned Administrator dated 22nd January, 2010, which is impugned in the present Writ Petition, is set aside. 3. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of with no orders as to costs. [ S. J. KATHAWALLA, J. ]