Mumbai, May 13 -- A vacation bench of the Bombay High Court has allowed a resident of Mumbai to withdraw his complaint in which he had asked the court to halt a key Tata Trusts meeting scheduled for later this week.

On Wednesday, a two-judge bench comprising Justice Advait M. Sethna and Justice Sadesh Dadasaheb Patil made observations on a petition filed by Suresh Patikhede, a 61-year-old resident of Thane.

The court expressed alarm that the petitioner sought an urgent judicial intervention while his formal complaints regarding board-composition limits under the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act remained unresolved by the regulator.

"We are constrained to observe that the proceedings bring out a shocking state of affairs. This is more so f...