SSK/4 1 WP/128.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 128 OF 2010 Manjula G. Vakil ....Petitioner Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited & Anr. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 169 OF 2010 Kunjvihari Chandrakant Mashruwala ....Petitioner Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited & Anr. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 170 OF 2010 Jyot P. Jhaveri ....Petitioner Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited & Anr. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 171 OF 2010 Jeswanti Doshi ....Petitioner Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited & Anr. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION NO. 190 OF 2010 Bipin Patel ....Petitioner Versus Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited & Anr. ...Respondents Mr. Ravi Kadam, Advocate General with Dr. B. B. Saraf i/b. Mr. Yogesh Adhia for the petitioners. Mrs. Anita Castelinho, Advocate for respondent no.1. Mr. H. V. Mehta, Advocate for respondent no.2. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & RANJIT MORE, JJ. DATED : 6th JUNE, 2011. SSK/4 2 WP/128.10 P.C.: These five petitions can be conveniently disposed of by a common order. 2. The questions involved in these petitions are whether the respondent-LIC can initiate the proceedings for eviction of the petitioners by resorting to the provisions of the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971 in breach of Government Notification dated 30th May, 2002 and whether the said Act is applicable to the petitioners’ premises. 3. Mr. Ravi Kadam, learned Advocate General who appears for the petitioners states that the petitioners will withdraw the instant petitions and raise these questions before the Estate Officer of LIC and the Estate Officer of LIC may be directed to decide the same independently and in accordance with law. 4. In view of the statement made by Mr.Kadam, learned Advocate General, we permit the petitioners to withdraw the petitions with liberty to agitate the aforesaid questions before the Estate Officer of LIC. Needless to say that the Estate Officer of LIC shall decide the same independently and in accordance with law expeditiously. We make it clear that we have not considered the merits of the case and have not expressed any opinion thereon. SSK/4 3 WP/128.10 5. The petitions are disposed of in the aforestated terms. (RANJIT MORE, J.) (SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.)