skc 1 WP-2407-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2407 OF 2011 Indus Towers Limited & Ors. ..Petitioners versus Tahsildar, Uran & Ors. ..Respondents Ms. Ankita Singhania i/b. M/s. D. H. Law Associates for Petitioners. Mrs. M. P. Thakur – Assistant Government Pleader for Respondent Nos. 1 to 3. Mr. Sachin Mhaske i/b. Deven Dwarkadas & Partner for Respondent No. 32. CORAM : D. D. SINHA AND MRS. MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATED : 09 September 2011. P.C. : Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners, the learned Assistant Government Pleader for the respondent nos. 1 to 3 and the learned counsel for the respondent no. 32. 2. The writ petition is directed against the impugned notices dated 16.12.2009 (Exhibit ‘D’), 7.1.2010 (Exhibit ‘D-1’), 7.1.2010 (Exhibit ‘D-2’), 7.1.2010 (Exhibit ‘D-3’), 8.1.2010 (Exhibit ‘D-4’), March 2010 skc 2 WP-2407-11 (Exhibit ‘F’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-1’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-2’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-3’), (Exhibit ‘F-4’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-5’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-6’), (Exhibit ‘F-7’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-8’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-9’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-10’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-11’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-12’), 18.10.2010 (Exhibit ‘F-13’), 5.2.2011 (Exhibit ‘H’), 5.2.2011 (Exhibit ‘H-1’), 10.2.2011 (Exhibit ‘H-2’), 10.2.2011 (Exhibit ‘H-3’) and 5.2.2011 (Exhibit ‘H-4’), issued by the Tahsildar, Uran – the Respondent No.1 to the petitioners, whereby the petitioners were called upon to pay the land revenue. The counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the notices came to be issued in the form of final order without any adjudication and also in violation of principles of natural justice and therefore prayed that liberty be given to the petitioners to file replies to the notices and direct the respondent no. 1 to take a decision thereafter by following principles of natural justice. 3. The learned Assistant Government Pleader has submitted that if the petitioner files replies to these notices within a period of two weeks, the respondent no.1 shall decide the issue by following the principles of natural justice within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of the replies. 4. The learned Assistant Government Pleader has made a statement, skc 3 WP-2407-11 referred to herein above that the petitioners will be at liberty to file replies to the notices within two weeks from today and the respondent no.1 thereafter shall decide the issue by following principles of natural justice within eight weeks from the date of receipt of the replies. In view of the said statement, no specific direction as such to respondent no. 1 is necessary and at the same time the cause of action in the present petition also does not survive. Hence, the petition is disposed of accordingly. In the interest of justice we expect the Tahsildar not to take any coercive action till the decision is taken. (D. D. SINHA, J.) (MRS. MRIDULA BHATKAR, J.)