IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 6964 OF 2007 Sau. Sunanda Subhash Pagare..... ...... ......Petitioner V/s Subhash Govindrao Pagare ..... ...... ......Respondent. Mrs.Gauri Jadhav, Adv. For the petitioner. Mr.Sunil V. Bhakre, Adv. For the respondent. CORAM: A.P.DESHPANDE, J. 5/10/07 PC: Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Taken up for final hearing by consent of both the parties. The present petitioner is the wife whereas the respondent is the husband. The petitioner-wife has instituted a marriage petition seeking divorce under section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act. In the said marriage petition the petitioner-wife has also filed an application under section 24 of the act claiming maintenance pendente-lite. The limited grievance that is voiced in this petition and which is pressed in service is that the application under section 24 of the act is pending before the trial Court for more than a year and failure to decide the application for such a long period is causing undue hardship and inconvenience to the petitioner. Learned counsel for the respondent does not oppose the prayer for expeditious disposal of the application under section 24 of the act. In this view of the matter I deem it appropriate to direct the Civil Judge, Senior Division, Panvel to decide the application moved by the petitioner under section 24 of the act claiming maintenance filed in marriage petition No. 57/06 as expeditiously as possible and at any rate within a period of six weeks from today. Rule made absolute in above terms.