nagpur advocate anand parchure has pleaded with the nagpur bench of bombay high court to discharge him from proceedings as amicus curiae in a writ petition pending in relation to lands of nagpur improvement trust nit citing disappointment and lack of time in the same petition parchure had pointed out toi reports following which chief minister eknath shinde had withdrawn his order directing nit to lease and hand over 16 plots to 16 persons costing around rs83 crore in mouza harpur recentlyparchure told toi hc had appointed me amicus curiae in this petition in 2004 in 2010 i had pleaded for discharge from the petition citing that the case was not being heard for a long time but the hc rejected it because of other responsibilities i will not be able to give full time and devote fully to the case except my name publishing in newspapers and appearing on news channels there is no satisfaction of doing a good job from this case citing another case he stated that the hc had accepted bhatta commissions report and he played a part in getting a large piece of land released from clutches of political heavyweights nobody challenged the order giving me immense pleasure but now the same situation of 2010 is being repeated due to which i failed to fulfil my duty he saidgilani committee appointed by hc had submitted its report in 2018 hearing was held in the case after four years when toi reported that shinde in his capacity of urban development minister in the mva government regime had passed an order even as proposed regularization of harpur land was challenged in the said petition and recommendations of gilani committee related to the said plots were pending before the hcin the hearing held on wednesday parchure pleaded time to reply to interventions filed by 16 persons hc accepted parchures prayer and kept the next hearing on february 2one of the main recommendations of gilani committee in the petition was not to allow commercial use on public utility pu lands the committee had observed misuse of 135 pu lands for commercial purpose