1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION LETTERS PETENT APPEAL NO. 291 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 9261 OF 2009 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION (L) NO. 329 OF 2009 IN LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 291 OF 2009 Ravi Saheb Rajpute ........Appellant versus Sou. Dhruvati S. Dalvi & ors.. .Respondents. WITH LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 292 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 9263 OF 2009 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION (L) NO. 330 OF 2009 IN L.P.A. NO.292 OF 2009 Ravi Saheb Rajpute ...... Appellant versus Sou Varsha D. Dhere & ors .... Respondents. WITH LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 293 of 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 9537 OF 2009 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 331 OF 2009 IN L.P.A. NO. 292 OF 2009 Ravi Saheb Rajpute .... Appellant 2 versus Sou. Sarika Tanaji Bhokare & ors. ..... Respondents. WITH LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 294 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 9535 OF 2009 WITH CIVIL APPLICAT6ION (L) NO. 332 OF 2009 IN L.P.A. NO. 294 OF 2009 Ravi Saheb Rajpute .... Appellant versus Sou Padmavati Chandrakant Bhandare & ors. ... Respondents. WITH LETTERS PATENT APPEAL NO. 295 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION 9536 OF 2009 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION (L) NO. 333 OF 2009 IN L.P.A. NO. 295 OF 2009 Ravi Saheb Rajpute ..... Appellant versus Sou. Rabia Salim Bagwan & ors ...... Respondents. Mr. M.L. Patil for the Appellant. Mr. P.K. Dhakephalkar Sr. adv. i/b. P.P.Kulkarni for respondent no.1. Mr. V.P. Malvankar for respondent nos. 2 and 3. Mr. T.S. Ingale for respondent no.4. Mr. S.B.Shetye for respondent no.6. 3 CORAM: J. N. PATEL Acting. C.J.,& B. R. GAVAI, J. DATED : 5th January, 2010. P.C.: 1. The parties have tendered Minutes of Order signed by their counsel as their representatives and pray that the Letters Patent Appeals be disposed of accordingly. 2. Minutes of Order is taken on record and marked as `X’ for identification in all the three Letters Patent Appeals. 3. The impugned order dated 20-11-2009 passed in Writ Petition/s is modified as follows: 1) Subject to para 3 below there will be stay of the operation of the order dated 17-09-2009 passed by the Collector, Satara in Disqualification Application no.2 of 2009. 2) The Respondents will remain Councilors of the Ichalkaranji Municipal Council except to the extent restricted by para 3 below so long as the stay order lasts or their tenure as Councilors expire whichever is earlier. 3) The Respondents will be entitled to attend and sign the register kept for attendance but they will neither participate in the proceedings in the council nor vote nor draw remuneration in their capacity as Councilors of the Ichalkaranji Municipal Council. 4) It will be open for the parties to move the learned 4 Single Judge for expeditious disposal of the Writ Petition. On such request being made the learned Single Judge would consider the same sympathetically. 4. All the above appeals stand disposed of accordingly with no orders as to costs. 5. In view of the disposal of appeals, Civil Applications for interim relief does not survive and the same are also dismissed as infructuous. ( Acting. C. J.) (B.R. Gavai, J.)