- 1 - Writ Petition No.8700/2009 Counsel appearing for the respondent no.1 submits that if the Court so directs, the authority would decide the appeal pending before it being Appeal No.44/2008 within six weeks. Since that is the only relief claimed in the present petition, we are inclined to dispose of this petition with a direction to the respondents, in particular Additional Commissioner, Aurangabad, to decide the pending appeal within six weeks from today and file compliance report in the Registry of this Court in that behalf. Needless to observe that the appeal will have to be decided on its own merits in accordance with law. It will be open to the petitioner to apply before the appellate authority for interim protection if so advised, which will have to be decided on its own merits. The petition is disposed of on the above terms. (A.M. Khanwilkar, J.) (S.S. Shinde, J.) Dt/- 13.01.2010 ndk/c1311025