IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (L) NO.1465 OF 2008 Transport & Dock Workers Union .... Petitioner V/s. The Board and Trustees of Port of Mumbai ..... Respondents Mr.K.K.Singhavi, Sr.Counsel a/w Mr.Susheel Mahadeshwar i/b Ranjana Todankar, for the Petitioners. Mr.E.P.Bharucha, Sr.Counsel a/w Umesh Shetty i/b Mulla & Mulla, for Respondent No.1. Mr.N.R.Prajapati a/w D.A.Athawale, for Respondent No.2. Mr.J.P.Cama, Sr.Counsel, a/w Shubha Kher & Pallavi Dedhia i/b Sanjay Udeshi & Co., for Respondent No.3. CORAM : P.B.MAJMUDAR & A.A.SAYED, JJ. DATED : 22th AUGUST, 2008. P.C. 1. The learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners requested that he may be permitted to delete respondent No.3 from the present petition as he is not claiming any relief against the said respondent. Permission is granted. The name of respondent No.3 accordingly stands deleted from the cause title of the petition. 2. The learned Senior counsel for the petitioners further submitted that the conciliation proceedings in connection with the subject matter are pending before the Asst. Labour Commissioner (Central), Mumbai. The learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners further submitted that since proceedings are already pending before the Conciliation Officer, he wants to withdraw this petition with a request that the Conciliation Officer may be directed to expedite the Conciliation proceedings. Permission to withdraw the petition is accordingly granted. If any proceedings are pending before the Conciliation Officer, the Conciliation Officer may take appropriate decision in this behalf latest by 30-09-2008 so that all subsequent proceedings may be decided expeditiously upto the stage of reference. 3. The State after receiving failure report if any from the Conciliation Officer may take appropriate decision expeditiously in connection with referring the matter to the appropriate Court. Such decision may be taken in accordance with law and in any case within a period of four weeks from the receipt of such report from the Conciliation Officer. Subject to what is stated above, the petition is disposed of accordingly with no order as to costs. ( A.A.SAYED, J. ) ( P.B.MAJMUDAR, J. )