1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, APPELLATE SIDE NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR First Appeal No. 1161 of 2008 Shrawan Odgan Kolhe Vs. Bajirao Mithu Kumare & Ors. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders Shri S. P. Palshikar Adv. for appellant. CORAM: C. L. PANGARKAR J. Dated: 1st October, 2008. Heard counsel for the appellant. This appeal is preferred against the judgment passed by the trial Court. Appellant has instituted a suit for recovery of Rs. 3,00,000/- by way of compensation for publishing defamatory articles in the newspapers by the defendants-respondents. It is not in dispute that those articles came to be published in the newspapers on 16.12.2000 and 31.03.2002. The learned Judge of the trial Court 2 found that the articles that were published were defamatory but then he found that suit was not instituted within a period of one year from the date of publication of the news. The suit has been instituted on 10.06.2003. Obviously the suit has been filed beyond the period of one year from the date of publication of libellous articles. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that observations of the learned Judge that the suit is barred by limitation by a period of one year and three months is not correct. Learned Judge may have erred but the fact is that the suit is barred by limitation because the suit has been instituted beyond the period of one year. I do not find that the learned Judge of the trial Court committed any error in holding that the suit is barred by limitation. There is no substance in the appeal. It is dismissed in limine. JUDGE svk