IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION NO.289 OF 2008 IN WRIT PETITION NO.5737 OF 2007 Lambaji Maruti Tapase .... Petitioner Vs. State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents Mr. R.K. Mendadkar for Petitioner. Mr. P.I. Patil, AGP for respondents. Coram : SMT. R.P. SONDURBALDOTA,J Date : 26th August, 2008 P.C. 1. By this Contempt Petition, the petitioner alleges that respondents have violated the order dated 8th August 2007 passed by the Division Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No.5737 of 2007. The said order reads as follows : “1. Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks leave to withdraw the petition with liberty to approach the Government for the similar reliefs. Leave granted. Petition stands disposed of as withdrawn with such liberty. 2. We make it clear that we have granted liberty as prayed for since the petitioner has claimed it. However, the Government shall consider the representation on its own merits and if permissible under law and we have expressed no opinion about it.” 2. The Petitioner alleges in the Contempt Petition that the respondents have dismissed his representations on the ground that the Writ Petition filed by the Petitioner has been dismissed by this Court. Mr.Mendadkar, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it was incumbent upon the respondents to independently consider the representations of the petitioner. 3. Perusal of the Contempt Petition shows that there is no reference whatsoever to any representation made by the petitioner after the order dated 8th August,2007. Further, what is annexed to thepetition as an order rejecting the representation of the petitioner is in fact an internal communication by the Desk Officer, Home Department of the State of Maharashtra to the Commissioner, State Excise Department informing the Commissioner about the dismissal of the Writ Petition filed by the petitioner. Thus it is seen that in the Contempt Petition filed, there is neither any representation referred to by the petitioner nor any order passed thereon by any of the respondents. Therefore, the Contempt Petition is dismissed. (SMT. R.P. SONDURBALDOTA,J)