1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.297 OF 2009 Annarao s/o Govindrao Patil ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Mah. & ors. ..RESPONDENTS Mr N.P. Patil, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr S.K. Kadam, APP for respondents no.1 to 3; CORAM: P.V. HARDAS AND R.K.DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE : 11th JUNE, 2009. PER COURT : Mr N.P. Patil (Jamalpurkar), learned Counsel for the petitioner after arguing for some time states on instructions from the petitioner that the petitioner may be permitted to withdraw this writ petition as the challenge to the impugned order has been rendered infructuous on account of passage of time and as per the directions of respondent no.3 the directions for surrendering of the arms is applicable only till the period the Code of Conduct is in force. In the light of that, therefore, learned Counsel for the petitioner seeks withdrawal of this writ petition with liberty to file a petition afresh in the event such orders are issued in future directing the petitioner to surrender his arm. We accordingly dismiss this writ petition as withdrawn with the liberty as prayed for. Mr S.K. 2 Kadam, learned APP for the respondents states that as per the impugned notice the period during which the arms were to be in the custody of the respondents has already expired and, therefore, if the petitioner approaches the respondents, the fire arm would be returned back to the petitioner. [ R.K. DESHPANDE, J ] [ P.V. HARDAS, J ] amj/criwp297.09 3