(Spl.-H.C.A.S.,C.D.,78-e) FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA APPELLATE SIDE MISCELLANEOUS CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 715 OF 2003. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Note, Office Memoranda of Quorum, appearances, Court’s Court’s or Judge’s Orders orders or directions and Registrar’s orders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. N.K. Sawaikar, Additional Government Advocate for the Appellants/Applicants. Mr. R.G. Ramani, Advocate for the Respondent. Coram : S.A. BOBDE, J. Date : 10th June 2004. P.C.: Heard. It appears that the delay of 540 days in filing the First Appeal was caused due to the fact that the Government Advocate, who handled the matter on behalf of the appellants, had resigned and the appellants were not aware of it. In fact, it appears that the said Government Advocate did not hand over the file to the appellants and that he gave his opinion in the matter on 6th August 2003, after several reminders. Thereafter, there was further delay due to the movement of the file from the Office - 2 - of the Executive Engineer (Legal) to the Law Department and the file was eventually approved and received in the Office of the Advocate General in November 2003. The draft was, thereafter, prepared and the appeal alongwith the application for condonation of delay was filed. 2. Having regard to these uncontroverted allegations, I hereby condone the delay in filing the Appeal. Put up for final hearing. S.A. BOBDE, J. ed’s.