IN IN IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL CIVIL CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE JURISDICTION PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 136 OF 2006 INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 136 OF 2006 INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 136 OF 2006 1. Shri Vishwnath Trimbak Bendre & ors.] .. Petitioners Versus 1. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ] .. Respondents Mr. Girish S. Godbole for the petitioners. Mr. P.M. Patil, AGP, for the respondent No.1. CORAM: R.M. LODHA & S.A. BOBDE, JJ. DATED: 18TH OCTOBER, 2006 P.C. : . Heard Mr. Girish S. Godbole, the counsel for the petitioners. 2. The principal challenge in the Writ Petition is to the constitution of the Committee known as Padadhikari Samiti consisting of Leader of the House, the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, the Chairman of the Standing Committee, etc. The Writ Petition appears to us to be politically motivated having been filed by the people belonging to the opposition party in the Municipal Corporation. How could, in the local : 2 : self-Government, the duly elected representatives or the Committee consisting of the duly elected Members of the Municipal Corporation be stopped from issuing necessary advice to the Corporation? 3. No case for invocation of extra ordinary jurisdiction in the Public Interest Litigation is made out. . Public Interest Litigation is dismissed in limine. Sd/- [R.M. [R.M. [R.M. LODHA, J.] LODHA, J.] LODHA, J.] Sd/- [S.A. [S.A. [S.A. BOBDE, J.] BOBDE, J.] BOBDE, J.]