- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.3860/2009 Madhavrao s/o Gunderao Akkangire, and 10 others. ...Petitioners.. Versus The State of Maharashtra & six others. ...Respondents... ..... Shri P.R. Patil, Advocate for petitioners. Shri K.G. Patil, AGP for respondent nos.1, 2, 3, 6 & 7. Shri Umakant Patil, Advocate h/f Shri P.G. Rodge, Advocate for respondent no.5. Shri S.P. Shah, Advocate for respondent no.4. ..... - 2 - CORAM: MOHIT S. SHAH, CJ & S.V. GANGAPURWALA, J. DATE: 25.08.2010 PER COURT: 1] Heard counsel for the parties. 2] In this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioners, who are residents of Udgir, have prayed for a writ of mandamus to direct the respondents – authorities to take immediate steps on the representations dated 5.2.2004; 14.8.2004; 22.9.2004; 7.3.2005 and 6.4.2005 annexed to the writ petition at Exhibits A-1 to A-5 respectively for making appropriate amendments in the revenue records for the inclusion of land Survey numbers at Udgir mentioned in the order at Exhibit B within the Municipal limits of Municipal Council, Udgir Dist.Latur. The petitioners have also prayed for a writ to restrain the respondents from demanding and recovering non-agricultural taxes from the residents of the above survey numbers. 3] Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, we are of the view that the interest of justice would be served if this petition is disposed of with a direction that the respondent no.6 – the Settlement Commissioner & Director of Land Records, Maharashtra State, Pune, shall consider and decide the above representations as expeditiously as possible and in any case within three months from the date of this - 3 - order. In order to facilitate the above task, we direct that the petitioners shall submit a fresh representation, along with copies of above representations and this order, to the respondent no.6 within a period of two weeks from today. The writ petition accordingly stands disposed of in above terms with no order as to costs. CHIEF JUSTICE (S.V. GANGAPURWALA, J.) ndk/c258104