1 wp3339.10.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Writ Petition No. 3339 of 2010 Habib Mohammad Kalot ..Petitioner v/s. Shoukat Gani Kalot & ors. ..Respondents Mr. Amit Borkar for the petitioner. Mr. S.V. Sadavarte for the respondents. CORAM:- B.R. GAVAI, J. DATED :- MARCH 11, 2011. P.C. By consent the petition is taken up for final hearing. 2. The petitioner challenges the order dated 20th February, 2010, and 30th March, 2010 passed by the Learned District Judge, Kolhapur thereby rejecting the application filed by the present petitioners for grant of status- quo during the pendency of the appeal. 3. In the suit filed by the petitioners, an application below exhibit 5 for 2 wp3339.10.sxw injunction was filed and during the pendency of the application there was an order of status-quo. However, subsequently, the application below exhibit 5 came to be rejected. Being aggrieved there by an appeal has been filed by the present petitioner. In the appeal, an application for grant of status-quo pending the hearing of appeal was filed. The same is rejected. Hence, the present petition. 4. I find that interest of justice would be sub-served by directing the learned Appellate Court to decide the appeal as expeditiously as possible and in any case within a period of three months from today. Till then parties are directed to maintain status-quo. 5. Petition is, therefore, disposed of with aforesaid observations. 6. It is further made clear that Court has not considered the merits of the matter and the learned Appellate Court would decide the appeal on its own merits after hearing the parties. (B.R. GAVAI, J)