skc 1 WP-5662-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5662 OF 2011 Gururatna Manikchand Bhange ..Petitioner versus The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited & Ors. ..Respondents Mr. S. D. Rupwate for Petitioner. Mr. S. R. Page for Respondent Nos. 1 to 3. Mr. Rajiv Chavan and Ms. Rutuja Ambeker for Respondent No. 4. CORAM : D. D. SINHA & A. R. JOSHI, JJ. 12 August 2011. P.C. : Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned counsel for the respondent nos. 1, 2 and 3 and the learned counsel for the respondent no. 4. 2. The writ petition is directed against the order dated 22nd June 2011 passed by the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited whereby the Dispensing Pump & Selling Licence dated 15th February 2009 for carrying on business at Naldurg, Taluka Tuljapur, District Osmanabad, in the name of M/s. G. M. Bhange Petroleum came to be terminated with immediate effect skc 2 WP-5662-11 3. At the outset, the learned counsel for the respondent nos. 1, 2 and 3 made a categorical statement that there is an alternate remedy available to the petitioner in view of clause 19(a) of the agreement before the Arbitrator and therefore it is open for the petitioner to exhaust that remedy and this Court may not show indulgence in the extra ordinary jurisdiction of this Court when there is an alternate efficacious remedy available to the petitioner. 4. In view of the statement made by the learned counsel for the respondent nos. 1, 2 and 3, the learned counsel for the petitioner seeks leave to withdraw the present writ petition with liberty to invoke clause 19(a) of the agreement. The counsel for the petitioner has further submitted that the respondents Bharat Petroleum has already appointed adhoc dealer to run the petrol pump and therefore their allotment may be made subject to the result of the arbitration proceedings. In the interest of justice, allotment if any of adhoc dealership is / are made, shall be subject to the result of the arbitration proceedings. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of as withdrawn with liberty as prayed for. (D. D. SINHA, J.) (A. R. JOSHI, J.)