IN THE HIGH COURT OF JDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 958 OF 2009 Cotton Country Retail Ltd. .. .. .. Petitioner Vs. Bombay Municipal Corporation .. .. .. Respondent Mr. K. P. Madhusoodanan Nair for the petitioner Ms. S.M. Modale for R-1. Mr. M. A. Gosavi, AGP CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI AND SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATE : 26TH NOVEMBER, 2009. P.C. Paragraph 9 of the affidavit filed by Jagdish H. Lade, Assistant Assessor and Collector Octroi indicates that an alternative remedy of filing a claim is available to the petitioner. In view of this, in our opinion, the petitioner ought to have filed its claim before the appropriate authority prescribed under Rule 26 of Levy of Octroi Rules. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner will file its claim before the appropriate authority. If such a claim is filed the appropriate authority will deal with it in accordance with law. If the petitioner is aggrieved by the order passed by the appropriate authority he can challenge that order in accordance with law. We have not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case. The appropriate authority may consider the petitioner’s claim independently and in accordance with law. The petition is disposed of in the aforestated terms. (SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.) (SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, J.)