MP 1 WP3635_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 3635 OF 2011 Dnyaneshwar Keshav Urane and others ... Petitioners Versus Sou. Surekha Hanumant Bartakke and another ... Respondents Mr. Surel S. Shah for Petitioners. Mr. G. N. Salunkhe for Respondent Nos. 1 and 2. CORAM : B.R. GAVAI, J. FRIDAY, MAY 06, 2011 P. C. : Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2. The petitioners challenge the order passed by the learned Appellate Court in a Civil Appeal No. 8 of 2011 whereby the learned Appellate Court has rejected the application filed by the present petitioners for grant of status-quo during the pendency of the appeal. 3. Two counter suits were filed by the petitioners as well as respondents against each other. The suit of the petitioners was dismissed and that of the respondents is allowed. Being aggrieved thereby, the aforesaid appeal has been filed by the petitioner before the District Judge, Malshiras. In the said appeal, an application below exhibit-5 was earlier filed for stay. The same is rejected. Thereafter, an application below exhibit-11 was filed for grant of status-quo, the same is also rejected. MP 2 WP3635_11 4. From the order dated 1st July 2003 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in Writ Petition No. 6583 of 2002, it would reveal that an order of status-quo is operating from the date on which the suit was filed till the decision of the suit. 5. In that view of the matter, I am of the considered view that the interests of justice would be met by directing the learned Appellate Court to dispose off the appeal itself on merits, within a period of six months from today, and till then, the order of status-quo, as aforesaid, would continue. 6. Rule made absolute in the aforesaid terms with no order as to costs. (B.R. GAVAI, J)