1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO.5836 OF 2010 (Western Coalfields Limited vs. 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. CORAM : D.D. SINHA AND A.P. BHANGALE, JJ. DATED : MARCH 23, 2011 Heard Shri Badar, learned Counsel for the petitioner, Mrs. Dangre, learned Additional Government Pleader for the respondent nos. 1 to 3, Shri Sanyal, learned Counsel for the respondent no.4, and Shri Pashine, learned Counsel for the respondent no.5. It is already brought to the notice of this Court by the learned Government Pleader in another writ petition that State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Circuit Bench, Nagpur shall start functioning from the first week of April 2011 and on the basis thereof, that writ petition came to be 2 disposed of. In the present petition, the petitioner is seeking direction to the respondent no.1 State Government to make appointment of the Presiding Officer of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Circuit Bench, Nagpur. Since it is already brought to the notice of this Court that the State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, Circuit Bench, Nagpur shall start functioning from the first week of April 2011, it is not necessary to issue such direction. The petition is disposed of accordingly. Shri Badar, learned Counsel for the petitioner, prays that interim order dated 6/12/2010 passed by this Court may kindly be continued till first week of April 2011. Since interim order is in existence for a long time, same is continued till first week of April 2011 and shall cease to operate automatically thereafter without reference to the Court. The State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission shall consider the issue afresh on its own merits in accordance with law so far as interim relief is 3 concerned and shall not be influenced by the interim order, which is extended by this Court till first week of April 2011. JUDGE JUDGE khj