The Goa government has obtained two weeks' time from a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court in Goa to take a decision on its stop-work orders issued to three private developers of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). The government was on Monday caught in a bind over a communication from the Centre expressing inability to denotify three of the already notified SEZs proposed to come up in Goa. Following a plea by Advocate-General Subodh Kantak during the hearing of two of the three SEZ cases, the Bench, comprising Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice N.A. Brito, directed the government to decide on the matter. Stop work orders Earlier, counsel representing K. Raheja Corporation Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, one of the three SEZ promoters who have challenged the stop-work orders, brought to the notice of the court that the Union Commerce Ministry had formally written to the Goa government conveying its inability to denotify three SEZs. In view of the letter, he sought a direction to the State government to vacate its earlier order. Stating that huge investments in the notified SEZ projects were at stake, the parties