FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.4304 OF 2011 “Aurangabad Furniture Makers Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd. Aurangabad Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others” Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mrs. A. S. Rasal, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. K.M. Suryawanshi, Advocate for respondents. CORAM :- D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. DATE :- 21st JUNE, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] Heard learned counsel for the parties. In this writ petition, the petitioner is seeking the following relief : “By issue of appropriate Writ, Order or direction, the respondents may kindly be directed to decide the Appeal filed by the petitioner on 28.3.2006 bearing NO. TPS/3006/378/CR198/06/30, pending before the Honourable Minister for Urban Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai-32 (EXHIBIT 'A') forthwith” 2] It appears that the petitioner has filed an appeal before the Minister for Urban Development Department, under Section 47 of the M.R.T.P. Act, 1966, in 2006, challenging the order dated 6/3/2008 issued by the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Aurangabad. By this order, the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Aurangabad has rejected the FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.4304 OF 2011 “Aurangabad Furniture Makers Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd. Aurangabad Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others” Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 application/proposal for development filed by the petitioner. 3] Having considered the prayer made in the writ petition, we are satisfied that the following order shall meet the ends of justice :- "Respondent No.2 shall endeavour to decide the petitioner's appeal filed on 28/3/2006 bearing Appeal No. TPS/3006/378/CR198/06/30, as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of 6 months from today. Petitioner is directed to communicate this order to respondent Nos. 1 and 2, within a period of 4 weeks from today" With these observations, writ petition is disposed of. It is made clear that we have not examined merits of the case and/or the issue of maintainability of the appeal. All contentions of the parties are kept open. [S.B. DESHMUKH,J.] [D.B. BHOSALE, J.] grt/-