IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CIVIL JURISDICTION CONTEMPT PETITION NO.409 OF 2009 Shri Bhalerao G. Pawar ...Petitioner. v. Malegaon Municipal Corporation & Ors. ...Respondents. Mr.R.M.Haridas i/by P.N.Joshi, advs. For the Petitioner. Mr.A.I.I.Patel, AGP For the Respondent No.4. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA, J. DATED : APRIL 29, 2010 P.C. 1 In Writ Petition No.8081/04, this Court had directed respondents to complete acquisition proceedings and pass award and to pay compensation within a period of 9 months failing which the reservation would stand cancelled. Contempt Petition was filed alleging that neither the land was acquired nor the compensation was paid and the permission for the development was not granted on the ground that proposal for acquisition was pending. Now affidavit-in-reply has been filed by the Special Land Acquisition Officer, Sopan R. Kasar wherein he had stated that as the Municipal Corporation, Malegaon had not deposited the compensation amount, acquisition proceedings stand cancelled and dropped. Similar affidavit is filed by P.Velrasu, Collector District Nashik and he has also explained the circumstances in which the - 2 - previous application of the petitioner for the N.A. permission was rejected. He states that if fresh application is made, it would be considered on its own merits. In view of this statement, in my opinion, nothing survives in the contempt petition and the contempt petition may be disposed off. Petition stands disposed off with further clarification that if the fresh application for N.A. permission is filed, it shall be considered and disposed off on its own merits and promptly. (J.H. BHATIA,J.)