1 Ash IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 1067 OF 2010 Vishnu Khandelwal. .. Petitioner Vs The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. .. Respondent -- Ms Neeta Mandhyan i/by S.M. Associates for the Petitioner. Ms Geeta Joglekar for BMC. Shri Peter Coutinho i/by Smt. Jane D’Souza, Occupier of Flat No.3. -- CORAM : MOHIT S. SHAH, CJ & S.C. DHARMADHIKARI, J DATE : 10TH AUGUST, 2010 P.C. The Assistant Engineer of the respondent-Municipal Corporation, K/West Ward Office, Andheri (West), Mumbai – 400 058 shall personally inspect the petitioner’s premises, i.e. Flat Nos.5 and 6, and the flats below them on the lower floor, including flat no.3 occupied by Shri Peter Coutinho, and submit a report to the Corporation with a copy thereof to the petitioner and to Shri Peter Coutinho. Within a period of one month from the date on which a copy of the report is submitted by the Corporation to the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner shall carry out whatever recommendations that are made by the said Assistant Engineer. 2. Thereafter, it will be open to the petitioner to prosecute 2 his application for regularization and the Corporation shall decide the same in accordance with law within a period of two months thereafter. 3. In the meantime, the respondent-authority shall not take any coercive action against the petitioner. This direction is given in view of the assurances given by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner shall carry out the recommendations as per the report submitted by the Assistant Engineer of the Corporation. 4. The petition is accordingly disposed of. 5. Copy of this order be given to the parties for timely complying with the above directions. CHIEF JUSTICE S.C.DHARMADHIKARI, J