1 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 8394 OF 2008 Shri Laxman Sopan Lokhande : Petitioner versus The State of Maharashtra and ors. : Respondents. Mr.Suresh M Sabrad for the Petitioner. Smt. M P Thakur, APP, for the State. CORAM : P B MAJMUDAR & R M SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 09th June 2010 P.C. 1 By the above Petition, the Petitioner seeks a direction that the Respondents be directed to allot alternate site to the Petitioner at Mouje : Umbre (Velapur), Tal.Malshiras, Dist Solapur and permit him to excavate13,374 brass of sand for a period of one year. Indubitably, the contract awarded to the Petitioner for excavation of sand has expired long back. The reliefs in the nature sought for by the Petitioner, in our view, cannot be granted in our extraordinary writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India and more so when the contract is a state largesse. We therefore decline to grant any relief in that respect. 2 2 It is the case of the Petitioner that he has deposited an amount of Rs.10,81,180/­ with the office of the Collector, Solapur in the hope that he would be granted an alternate site for excavation. If that be so, the concerned authority i.e. The Collector, Solapur, is directed to refund the said amount within a period of two weeks of the Petitioner producing the copy of this order before him. 3 In the light of the above, nothing survives for consideration in the present Petition and the same is accordingly disposed of. [R.M.SAVANT, J] [P.B.MAJMUDAR, J]