IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No 7537 of 1996 -------------------------------------------------------------- KANTABEN RAMABHAI PATEL & OTHERS Versus STATE OF GUJARAT -------------------------------------------------------------- Appearance: MR GM AMIN for Petitioners MR SJ DAVE AGP for Respondent No. 1, 2 -------------------------------------------------------------- CORAM : MR.JUSTICE Y.B.BHATT Date of decision: 19/07/1999 ORAL JUDGEMENT 1. Learned counsel for the petitioner is absent although this matter has been repeatedly called out. 2. The petitioners herein challenge the order passed in appeal under section 33 of the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act, 1976. 3. There cannot be any controversy that the State of Gujarat adopted on 30th March, 1999, the Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999. Under section 4 of the said Act, all proceedings pending on the said date shall abate. It is so found and held. 4. This petition is accordingly disposed off. Rule discharged with no order as to costs. Interim relief stands vacated. 5. It may however be observed that looking to the nature of the order challenged in the present petition and the ad interim relief which has been granted by this Court in this petition w.e.f. 5th October, 1996 onwards, it appears that the petitioners are still in actual and physical possession of the land in question. (Y.B. BHATT, J.) ***** pirzada/-