1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 21 OF 2008 CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 21 OF 2008 CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 21 OF 2008 IN IN IN PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 148 OF 2006 PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 148 OF 2006 PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 148 OF 2006 Shamsunder Haribhau Potare.. .. Petitioner. vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents. Mr. S.M. Oka i/by Sagar Joshi for Petitioner. Mr. P.M. Patil, AGP., for Respondent No.1. Mr. V.P. Sawant with Vinod Jadhav i/by V.D. Patil for Respondent No. 2. Mr. Y.S. Jahagirdar, Sr. Adv., i/by S.S. Kanetkar for Respondent No. 3. Mr. P.S. Dani for Respondent No. 4. Mr. A.V. Anturkar i/by S.B. Deshmukh for Respondent No.6. Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. with A.A. Joshi, Ms. Pratibha Mehta & Christine Rewrie i/by Little & Co. for Respondent No. 9. CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & CORAM: J.N. PATEL, & K.U. CHANDIWAL, JJ. K.U. CHANDIWAL, JJ. K.U. CHANDIWAL, JJ. DATE: 9TH JULY, 2008. DATE: 9TH JULY, 2008. DATE: 9TH JULY, 2008. P.C. 2 . Heard. 2. This application was made as the petitioner is seeking issuance of notice against Shri Sharad Pawar for initiating action against him under Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 on the basis of a news item which appeared in marathi newspaper Maharashtra Times in the form of explanation allegedly sent by Mr. Sharad Pawar. 3. With the able assistance of the learned counsel for the petitioner, we have gone through the letter and we find that no case is made out to initiate any action against Mr. Sharad Pawar under the Contempt of Courts Act. Therefore, the application is rejected. We may remind the petitioner that rather than making frivolous applications like this, he should assist the Court in dealing with the subject which is in issue before this Court in the Public Interest Litigation. The respondents, who have not filed their reply, are directed to file their reply on or before the next date. 4. S.O. for four weeks. (J.N. Patel, J.) (J.N. Patel, J.) (J.N. Patel, J.) ( K.U. Chandiwal, J.) ( K.U. Chandiwal, J.) ( K.U. Chandiwal, J.) 3