IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 3 OF 2006 Nitin Shankar Deshpande and others ...Petitioners Versus The State of Maharashtra and others ... Respondents Ms. Gauri Godse for the petitioners. Mr. P.I. Khemani, Assistant Government Pleader, for respondent Nos. 1 and 2. Mr. R.S. Apte for respondent Nos. 3 and 4. CORAM: H.S. BEDI , C.J., & V.M. KANADE , J. DATE: DECEMBER 18, 2006. P.C. In the affidavit-in-reply filed by the respondents, it has been pointed out that the Resolution passed by the Corporation is pending for approval and as such the writ petition is premature. We accordingly permit the petitioners herein to represent before the State Government at the time of the hearing on the aforesaid Resolution and further direct that in case the objections filed by the petitioners before the State Government are overruled and the permission is granted for the conversion of the lake, the said order will be kept in abeyance for a period of eight weeks from the date of such order. We also make it clear that all the issues that have been raised by the petitioners in the present writ petition will be kept open for discussion in any future litigation, should the need so arise. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. CHIEF JUSTICE V.M. KANADE, J.