By the Court.—The petitioner is the wife of Dr. Prem Chand Mehrotra who died on 24.6.2005. Dr. P.C. Mehrotra was lessee of Bungalow No. 10, Elgin Road, Allahabad who obtained two separate lease deeds in respect of the land in question and copies of the said lease deeds have been filed as Annexures 2 and 3 to the writ petition. The petitioner applied for free hold after the death of her husband which was not being considered as a result whereof she filed Writ Petition No. 40945 of 2008 in which the following orders were passed on 11.8.2008 :

1. “Heard Mr. Ashwani Kumar Misra in support of this petition, Sri Chandra Shekhar Singh, learned Standing Counsel for State of U.P. appears for the respondents.

2. The petitioner wants to deposit the conversion charges for converting the concerned land into free hold.

3. The respondents will receive the amount, if so deposited today during the course of the day. The deposit and receipt will be both without prejudice.

4. The matter may be listed on 1st September, 2008

Sd. H.L.Gokhale, C.J.

Sd. Vineet Saran, J.”

2. It is during these proceedings that the petitioner’s application for free hold has not been processed on t