-: 1 :- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 2439 OF 2008 WRIT PETITION NO. 2439 OF 2008 WRIT PETITION NO. 2439 OF 2008 Shri Dattatray Krishna Pawar .. Petitioner. V/s. State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents. ... Mr.A.V.Anturkar i/by Shri S.B.Deshmukh for the Petitioner. Mr.Y.S.Gokhale, AGP for the Respondent -State. --- CORAM : D. K. DESHMUKH & CORAM : D. K. DESHMUKH & CORAM : D. K. DESHMUKH & N.D.DESHPANDE, JJ. N.D.DESHPANDE, JJ. N.D.DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED : 17TH APRIL, 2008. DATED : 17TH APRIL, 2008. DATED : 17TH APRIL, 2008. P.C. : P.C. : P.C. :- . In this petition basically the challenge is to the order dated 23rd August, 2001 passed by the Additional Commissioner, Pune Region, Pune. The petition has been filed in the year 2008. The order is of August, 2001. There is hardly any explanation given for the latches. Therefore, due to the inordinate delay, the petitioner’s challenge to the said order dated 23rd August, 2001 cannot be entertained. 2. Sofar as the other request of the learned counsel for the petitioner that as his land is agricultural and as it is surplus to the need of the -: 2 :- government after acquisition and as the government has already taken a decision about the disposal of the lands which are non-agricultural and the lands which are agricultural but have non-agricultural potential, the government should be directed to take decision about the disposal of the lands which are purely agricultural. In our opinion, there is no need for the government to take any policy decision in that regard because in Maharashtra Land Revenue Code and the Rules framed thereunder there are already provisions made for disposal of the agricultural lands which are surplus to the need of the government. In our opinion, therefore, if the land is surplus to the need of the government, the government can proceed to dispose it of in accordance with the provisions of the Land Revenue Code. No direction is necessary to be issued to the government in that regard. Petition is rejected. (D.K. DESHMUKH,J.) (N.D.DESHPANDE,J.) .....