1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR Criminal Writ Petition No.201/2010 [Premsing Kisansing Thakur .vrs. State of Maharashtra and others] ................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ................................................................................................................................................................... CORAM : A.P. LAVANDE & P.D. KODE, JJ. DATE : JUNE 24, 2010. Heard Mr. Vinay Dahat, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. K.S. Joshi, learned APP for the respondents. By this petition, the petitioner, who is undergoing imprisonment for life in Central Prison, Nagpur for having committed the offence punishable under Section 3(1)(ii) 3(4) of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 and sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for 10 years and to pay a fine of Rs.10,00,000/- (Rs. Ten Lacs) vide judgment and order dated 27.2.2003, prays that fine amount be waived. 2 Since the petitioner has an alternate remedy of challenging imposition of fine and substantive sentence either by way of appeal or by representation to the State Government for remission of sentence, we are not inclined to exercise our extra ordinary jurisdiction to entertain the petition. The petition stands disposed of. The fees of the learned counsel Mr. Vinay Dahat, who has been appointed to appear on behalf of the petitioner, are quantified at Rs.750/-. JUDGE JUDGE Gulande