wp7623-11.sxw 1 spb IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 7623 OF 2011 Ganesh Arun Chavan ... Petitioner. V/s. 1. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ... Respondents. --- Mr. G.N. Salunkhe i/by Mr. Shankar Erande for the Petitioner. Ms. Aparna Vhatkar, AGP for the Respondent No.1. Ms. Mangiri L.Jadhav i/by Mr.Prabhakar Jadhav for Respondent No.2. Mr.Dinesh Bhosale for Respondent No.3. . --- CORAM:- G. S. GODBOLE, J. DATED :- 19th DECEMBER, 2011. P.C. : 1 Rule. By consent of the parties, Rule is made returnable forthwith. Learned AGP waives service on behalf of the Respondent No.1. Mr. Prabhakar Jadhav, Advocate, waives service on behalf of Respondent No.2 and Ms. Bhosale, Advocate, waives service on behalf of the Respondent No.3. 2 Grampanchayat Appeal No. 80 of 2011 filed by the Petitioner is pending before the Additional Commissioner, Pune Division, Pune and aggrieved by the impugned order, declining to grant interim relief, the wp7623-11.sxw 2 Petitioner has filed the present Writ Petition. In this Writ Petition, the Petitioner has been protected by the order dated 19.9.2011, which order is operating till today. 3 In view of this instead of keeping this Writ Petition pending, it is appropriate that the Additional Commissioner, Pune Division,Pune shall finally decide Grampanchayat Appeal No. 80/2011 within a period of one month from today. According to Mr. Bhosale, hearing of the Appeal is concluded and the Judgment is reserved. If that be so, there is no need to fix any further hearing. In case, however, the hearing is not concluded then the Commissioner shall fix a date of hearing and decide the Appeal after hearing the Appellant and Respondent No.3. 4 It is directed that the order of the Additional Collector shall remain stayed till the disposal of the Appeal before the Additional Commissioner and for a period of one week thereafter in case the decision is adverse to the Petitioner. 5 Rule is made absolute in the aforesaid terms. [G. S. GODBOLE, J.]