1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NOS. 2012 AND 1165 & 1167 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO.2266 OF 2008 AND WRIT PETITION NO.2266 OF 2008 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders. Mr.Vinod Wagh, Advocate, for the applicant CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 14/08/2009 PC: Heard learned counsel for the petitioner. The petitioner, in this civil application, has prayed for fixed date of hearing of the main petition. The petition is directed against the order dated 3.8.2007, by which the petitioner's application at Exhibit-6 seeking access to the child Mansi, has been rejected. When this court admitted the petition, no interim order was passed. In view thereof, Mr. Wagh, learned counsel for T 2 the petitioner, on instructions from his client who is present in the court, submits that the petition itself may be disposed of with directions to the Family Court to dispose of the main petition, being Petition No.D-32 of 2006 filed by the petitioner for custody of Mansi within time frame. He submits that the trial is in progress and it should get over within 3-4 months. I have perused the order dated 3.8.2007. Access to the child has been denied in view of the respondent-mother’s categoric stand that the petitioner is not father of Mansi. In view of the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner, I do not wish to enter into merits of the case and I am satisfied that the following order shall meet the ends of justice. The writ petition is disposed of as not pressed. Rule is discharged. The 3 Family Court shall endeavour to dispose of the main Petition No.D-32 of 2006 as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of four months from the date of receipt of this order. The petitioner is directed to produce a copy of this order before the Family Court within a period of two weeks from today. The Family Court shall decide the petition on merits in accordance with law and uninfluenced by the observations made in the impugned order dated 3.8.2007. while passing this order, I shall not be understood to have examined the merits of the case. In view of disposal of the writ petition, the Civil Applications are disposed of. (D.B.BHOSALE, J.)