1 conp1310 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL CONTEMPT PETITION NO. 13 OF 2010 WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1 OF 2010 Sitaram Sakhtu Chaurasia ...Petitioner V/s. Sharad Dalvi & Anr. ...Respondents Mr. S.J. Chaurasia i/by M/s. Ashok Law Firm for the Petitioner / Applicant Ms. Seena Rawade for Respondent No. 1 Mr. K.V. Saste, A.P.P., for the State. CORAM: A.M. KHANWILKAR AND A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATE: 11TH JANUARY, 2011 P.C.:- This Criminal Contempt Petition has been filed to initiate contempt action against Mr. Sharad Dalvi, the then Assistant Municipal Commissioner, in connection with the statement made by him before the Court, which has been recorded in the order dated 14th September, 2007 in Contempt Petition No. 83 of 2007. On the basis of the said statement and the apology tendered by the officer Mr. Sharad S. Salvi, 2 conp1310 Assistant Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, 'C' Ward, the notice for initiating contempt action against him came to be discharged. 2. The counsel appearing for the Corporation submits, on the basis of information available with her, that the said officer, respondent No. 1 in the Contempt Petition, has since expired some time in May, 2010. There is no reason to doubt the correctness of this submission. 3. In view of the above, nothing survives for consideration in the present Contempt Petition. The same is disposed of. 4. In view of the order passed in the Contempt Petition, the accompanying Application is also disposed of. A.R. JOSHI, J. A.M. KHANWILKAR, J.