* 1 * W.P.930.2011 &W.P.946.2011 17.8.2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 930 OF 2011 Mayanagar Achanak CHS & Ors. ....Petitioners V/S. Union of India & Ors. ....Respondents ALONGWITH WRIT PETITION NO. 946 OF 2011 Durgamata Co-operative Hsg.Soc.Ltd & Ors. ....Petitioners V/S. Union of India & Ors. ....Respondents Mr. R.D. Soni with Mr. D.D. Mehta i/by. M/s. A.S. Dayal Associates, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Shyam Mehta with Ms. Naveena Kumai, Advocate for respondents no1 to 3. Mr. A.B. Ketkar, AGP for respondent no.5 in W.P. 930/2011. Mr. Vijay Patil, GP for repsondent no.5 in W.P.946/2011. CORAM :- Mohit S. Shah, (Chief Justice) & Smt. R.P. SondurBaldota, J. DATED : 17th August, 2011. P.C. :- 1. Aggrieved by the letter dated 2nd March, 2007 of the Additional Director (IA), Ministry of Environment and Forest, the petitioners filed * 2 * W.P.930.2011 &W.P.946.2011 17.8.2011 an appeal before the Chairman, National Coastal Zone Management Authority in the Ministry of Environment and Forest on 1st October, 2010. The petitioners have moved this Court as the appeal is not yet decided. The learned counsel for the Union of India, states that since no such appeal is maintainable, the Appeal has not been heard and decided. 2. Even if the appeal is not maintainable, nothing prevents the Authority from deciding the representation. 3. Accordingly, the petitions are disposed off with a direction to respondents no.2 and 3 to decide the petitioners’ representation dated 1st October, 2010, as expeditiously as possible, and preferably within a period of 2 months from the date of receipt of this order. It will be open for the petitioners to file a supplementary representation for placing additional submissions, which the petitioners may desire to make, provided such representation is filed within a period of 2 weeks from today. It is clarified that we have not gone into the merits of the contentions raised in the petitions. The petitions are accordingly disposed off. [SMT. R.P. SONDURBALDOTA, J] [CHIEF JUSTICE]