FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO.: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.992 OF 2007 ------------------------------------:---------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of : Court’s or Judge’s orders. coram, appearances, Court’s orders : or directions and Registrar’s : orders. : ------------------------------------:----------------------------------- Mr V.B.Rajure, for the petitioner. Ms. P.S.Cardozo, AGP for respondent no.2. CORAM: D.B.Bhosale,J. DATED: 18.02.2008 P.C.: Heard Mr Rajure, learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned AGP for respondent no.2. This writ petition is directed against concurrent findings of the courts below in the proceedings arising from the appeal filed by the respondents under section 169 of the Maharashtra Municipal Council Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Township Act,1961 (for short, "the Act" ) in respect of rateable value fixed by the Council. Mr Rajure, learned counsel for the petitioner, informs that during pendency of the proceedings, the rateable value has been revised by the Council in 2004 and 2005 and the said revision has also been challenged by the respondents by way of independent proceedings under section 169 of the Act and the proceedings are pending before the Judicial Magistrate First Class at Kagal. In view thereof he submits that the trial Court be directed to decide the proceedings initiated by the respondents challenging the revision on merits in accordance with law and uninfluenced by the observations made in the instant proceedings. In the circumstances, this writ petition is dismissed. The trial Court is directed to decide the proceedings initiated by the respondents under section 169 of the Act challenging the revision of the rateable value on merits in accordance with law and uninfluenced by the observations made in the impugned orders. The writ petition is disposed of. (D.B.Bhosale, J.)