FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO.: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.7675 OF 2007 ------------------------------------:---------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of : Court’s or Judge’s orders. coram, appearances, Court’s orders : or directions and Registrar’s : orders. : ------------------------------------:----------------------------------- Mr V.J.Hegde, for the petitioners. Mr H.A.Bhor, the respondents. CORAM: D.B.Bhosale,J. DATED: 20.02.2008 P.C.: Heard learned counsel for the parties. Mr Hegde, learned counsel for the petitioners, prays for withdrawal of this petition with liberty to the petitioners to file an appeal against the order under section 55 of the MRTP Act. He further prays for extension of the interim order passed by this court earlier until the appeal and/or the application for stay is heard by the appellate authority. Mr.Bhor, learned counsel for the Corporation, has no objection for granting liberty to the petitioners to challenge the order under section 55 of the MRTP Act in appeal. In the circumstances, I pass the following order. The writ petition is disposed of as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioners to challenge the order under section 55 of the MRTP Act before the appropriate forum and file an application for interim order therein. If such an application is filed within a period of two weeks from today the appellate court shall pass orders thereon within a period of four weeks from the date of its filing on merits in accordance with law. The interim protection, initially granted by the City Civil Court vide order dated 13.9.2007, impugned in the present writ petition and continued by this court vide order dated 16.10.2007 and the order dated 19.10.2007, shall remain operative for a period of six weeks from today. While granting interim protection, I shall not be understood to have examined the case of the petitioners on merits and the appellate court shall deal with the appeal in accordance with law and uninfluenced by the interim order of protection granted by this court. (D.B.Bhosale, J.)