IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2489 OF 2009 IRLA SHOPKEEPERS WELFARE ASSOCIATION .. PETITIONER Vs. MUMBAI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION & ORS. - RESPONDENTS Mr. M. M. Vashi i/b M/s. M.P. Vashi & Associates for petitioner Ms. Shobha Ajithkumar for BMC CORAM:- SMT. RANJANA DESAI & SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATED :- 11/12/2009 P.C. The petitioner society is registered under the Securities Registration Act. It is a society of Irla shopkeepers. The petitioners have prayed that a direction be issued to the respondents i.e. the Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the Senior Inspector of Police Juhu Police Station to remove all unauthorized hawkers from Irla Society Road, Vile Parle (West). 2. We have heard Mr. Vashi, learned counsel for the petitioner. Mr. Vashi has drawn our attention to the order dated 7/5/09 passed by the Division Bench of this court in Writ Petition No. 2444 of 2008, where in similar fact situation the Division Bench referred to the affidavit filed on behalf of the Corporation in which assurance was given that encroachment will be removed. On that basis the petition was allowed to be withdrawn. 3. Learned counsel for the Corporation informed us that the Corporation has already taken action to remove the unauthorized hawkers from Irla Society Road, Vile Parle (West). Letter addressed by the Senior Inspector (Licence Encroachment) K-W Ward dated 11/2/09 along with the photographs is tendered in the court and it is taken on record and mark “X-Collectively”. The letter indicates that action of removing the hawkers is taken. The photographs annexed to the letter support this submission of learned counsel for the Corporation. 4. We expect the Corporation to continue with the work of removal of unauthorized encroachment from the Irla Society Road, Vile Parle (West) expeditiously. Petition is disposed of in terms of the statement made by learned counsel for the Corporation. (Smt. Ranjana Desai, J.) (Smt. Mridula Bhatkar, J.)