-1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (LODGING) NO. 867 OF 2007 Sunil V. Surve .... Petitioner versus Municipal Corporation of Gr. Bombay ...Respondent None for the respondent. Ms. A.K. Savla for the respondent. CORAM: SWATANTER KUMAR, C.J. & S.C. DHARMADHIKARI, J. DATE: JUNE 11, 2007. P.C. Nobody is present on behalf of the petitioner. The challenge in the present petition is to the order passed by the respondent vide order dated 4th April, 2007, rejecting the petitioner's application for issuing a fresh trade licence under Section 394 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act. The learned counsel appearing for the respondent submits that the petitioner has a statutory remedy under the provisions of the said Act and an appeal lies to the Small Causes Court. We, without commenting upon the merits of the case, dispose of this petition with liberty to the petitioner to take recourse to alternative statutory remedy which is equally an efficacious remedy. Writ Petition -2- is disposed of in the above terms with no order as to costs. CHIEF JUSTICE S.C. DHARMADHIKARI, J.