ash 1 caf-1909n1911 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.1909 OF 2011 AND CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 1911 OF 2011 IN FIRST APPEAL NO.1938 OF 2010 Office Notes, Office memorandum of Coram, appearances, Court’s Court’s or orders or directions & Judge’s orders. Registrar’s orders. Shri Jawahar J. Thakkar for the Applicants. Shri Vinod Mahadik for Respondent Nos.1 to 3 and BMC. Shri Balasaheb Deshmukh for Respondent Nos.5 and 6. -- CORAM : A.S.OKA, J. DATE : 14TH JULY, 2011 P.C.: . These are the applications filed by the Applicants who are the original Plaintiffs. By the impugned judgment and decree, the Competent Authority was directed to pass an appropriate order on considering the reply and documents produced by the Applicants/Appellants (Original Plaintiffs) within a period of three months from the date of that order. Till the time the order was not passed, the parties were ash 2 caf-1909n1911 directed to maintain status quo. Now the Mumbai Municipal Corporation has passed orders of demolition in May, 2011. Various contentions have been raised by the learned counsel appearing for the Applicants about the illegality of the said orders. His submission is that the Applicants have not been heard before passing the orders. His submission is that inspection of the relevant documents has not been given. Now the Mumbai Municipal Corporation has purportedly passed the orders of demolition under Section 351 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888. Therefore, the Applicants will have to adopt appropriate proceedings for challenging the said orders and grievances regarding the said orders cannot be entertained in the present appeal. To enable the Applicants to take appropriate steps, protection will have to be granted for a reasonable period. Hence, the Applications are disposed of by granting liberty to the Applicants to adopt appropriate proceedings for challenging the orders passed by the Municipal Corporation as well as for seeking reliefs sought in these applications. 2. To enable the Applicants to take appropriate steps, status quo as of today shall be maintained in respect of ash 3 caf-1909n1911 the disputed structures for a period of 12 weeks from today. 3. All contentions of the parties on merits are kept open. (A.S.OKA, J)