1 pdp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 2440 OF 2009 IN CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 10405 OF 2004 Ashok Ganapat Hadkar .. Applicant Vs. 1. Shri Ramchandra Narayan Gore and ors. ..Respondents Mr. Ashish Gaikwad for applicant. Mr. S.D. Rayrikar, AGP for respondent nos.1, 2 and 4. Mr. R.K. Mendadkar for respondent no.3. Mr. B.D. Joshi for original petitioner in Writ Petition No. 10405 of 2004. CORAM: B.H.MARLAPALLE & SMT. ROSHAN DALVI, JJ. October 16, 2009. P.C. Heard Mr. Gaikwad the learned counsel for the applicant, who prayed to be impleaded and substituted as the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 10405 of 2004, as the original petitioner has given up the challenge to the order passed by the Scrutiny Committee, thereby deciding favourably the social status of original respondent no.3. The application is allowed to be withdrawn, as per the leave prayed for by Mr.Gaikwad and with liberty as is available in law. (SMT. ROSHAN DALVI,J.) (B.H.MARLAPALLE,J.) 2