1 lps255.06.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 255 OF 2006 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 5499 OF 2003 The Additional Director, Health Services & Family Planning, Pune ..Appellant Vs. Indian Red Cross Society & Ors. .. Respondents Mr. S. S. Pakale with A.D. Kango and A.I. Patel, AGP for the Appellant. Ms Seema Sarnaik for Respondent Nos. 3 to 12. CORAM : P.B. MAJMUDAR AND A.A. SAYED, JJ. DATE : 7TH JUNE, 2011. P.C. 1. The present appeal is directed against the order of the learned Single Judge dated 18th March, 2004 in Writ Petition No. 5499 of 2003. The learned Single Judge passed the order asking the appellant to pay the arrears of salaries to the concerned employees as per the order passed by the Industrial Court. The learned Single Judge directed that the appellant shall disburse the amount of the arrears of salaries to the employees immediately and the matter was thereafter adjourned to 15th April, 2004 for further orders. The aforesaid interlocutory order is impugned by the Appellant by LPA. Since the Government was permitted to release the grant for making 2 lps255.06.sxw the payment in fovour of the respondents, the State Government has challenged the said order of the learned Single Judge by way of this LPA before this Court. It is pointed out that the State Government has already deposited the amount in this Court. The Division Bench by order dated 29th January 2007, permitted the State Government to withdraw the said amount. In our view, now it is not necessary to keep this appeal pending, which is filed at interlocutory stage. However, we request the learned Single Judge to dispose of the writ Petition No.5499 of 2003, expeditiously, which is pending since more than 8 years. 2. This Letters Patent Appeal is disposed of by requesting the learned Single Judge to dispose of the writ petition preferably by 5th September, 2011, as point involved in the writ petition is very short one and writ petition is filed against the order of the Industrial Court. 3. Till the petition is decided whatever interim orders passed in this LPA shall continue to operate. 4. Subject to the same, this appeal is disposed of. ( A.A. SAYED, J. ) (P.B. MAJMUDAR, J.)