1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 9759 OF 2010 Manikrao s/o Ishwarrao Patil & others .. PETITIONERS VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & others .. RESPONDENTS Mr. A.N. Irpatgire, advocate for the petitioners. Mr. K.J. Ghute Patil, AGP for the State. Mr. N.P. Patil Jamalpurkar, advocate for the caveator. ===== CORAM : R. M. BORDE, J. DATE : 14 th OCTOBER, 2010. PER COURT : 1 Heard respective counsel appearing for the parties. 2 It is not disputed that the petitioners have preferred an appeal to the State Government raising exception to the order passed under section 78 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act by the Regional Joint Director (Sugar), Nanded and the appeal is pending. Alongwith the appeal, an application is also tendered for grant of interim relief. My attention is invited 2 to the order passed by Division Bench of this court on 23-9-2010. While disposing of Writ Petition no. 8632/2010 the Division Bench of this court has directed that in the event of passing any order adverse to the interest of the petitioners herein by the respondent no. 3 i.e. the Regional Jt. Director (Sugar), Nanded, the same shall not be given effect for a period of 15 days from the date of receipt of such order by the petitioners. It is stated that the interim protection given by the Division Bench of this court comes to an end today. The appeal presented to the Minister is scheduled to come up for hearing on 19-10-2010. On the given date, the Minister shall extend hearing on the application tendered by the petitioner for grant of interim relief and shall consider the said application. The Minister shall proceed to decide the application for grant of interim relief before 26-10-2010. Interim protection granted by this court shall be extended till consideration of the application presented by the petitioners for grant of interim relief in pending appeal. The petitioner also has made a categorical statement that he will not take any major policy decision in the meantime. With these directions, the petition stands disposed of. 3 Pending civil application, if any, does not survive and stands disposed of. 3 4 Authentic copy of this order be supplied to the parties. ( R. M. BORDE, J.) dyb/office/wp9759.10.odt