WP 4933/11 1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.4933/2011 Vasant Vitthalrao Pathade V/s The State & others. _______________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office | Memoranda of Coram, | Court's or Judge's orders appearances, Court's | orders or directions | and Registrar's orders | Shri D.B. Pawar Pathrikar, Advocate for petitioner. Smt.A.V. Gondhalekar, AGP for respondents. CORAM: D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. Date: 03.08.2011 Heard learned counsel for the parties. By this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking direction to respondent no.3 to renew his retail kerosene dealer’s licence. Learned counsel for the petitioner, on instructions, submits that the petitioner would be satisfied if he is allowed to make fresh application for seeking renewal of his licence bearing No.3 of 1993 along with application WP 4933/11 2 for condonation of delay for seeking renewal belatedly. He further submits that if such liberty is granted, he has instructions not to press this writ petition on merits. Having considered overall facts and circumstances of the case, we are satisfied that this petition can be conveniently disposed of by the following order. The petitioner is allowed to make application seeking renewal of his kerosene dealer’s licence bearing No.3 of 1993, along with application for condonation of delay, within a period of four weeks from today. If the petitioner files applications for seeking renewal and for condonation of delay, respondent no.3 shall consider the same on merits in accordance with law within a period of four weeks from the date of submitting the applications. It is needless to mention that if respondent no.3 is not inclined to grant the applications for any prima facie reasons, he shall grant opportunity of hearing to the petitioner before passing the order on his WP 4933/11 3 applications. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of. (S.B. Deshmukh, J.) (D.B. Bhosale, J.) Dt/- 03.08.2011 ndk/c381117