1 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLAE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.1845 OF 2008 IN SECOND APPEAL STAMP NO.20799 OF 1999 Shri Sayyed Sarfaraj Ali N Sayyed : Applicant. Versus Shri Abdul Kadar Abdul Gani : Respondent. Mr. V V Pai for the Applicant. None for the Respondent.. CORAM : C.L.PANGARKAR, J. DATE : 6th JANUARY 2010 P.C. 1. Heard the learned counsel for the Applicant. None appears for the Respondent. 2. This application has been filed for restoration of the Appeal which came to be dismissed on 2/9/2000 for non-removal of office objections. 3. The contention that is raised by the Applicant is that the lawyer to whom this appeal was entrusted did not inform him about the progress of the appeal. It is stated that when the applicant did not hear anything in the matter for quite a long time, he tried to contact his 2 lawyer, but upon enquiry he came to know that the said lawyer left the profession and his whereabouts were also not known. Thereafter he made enquiry about the status of the appeal in the Registry, where he got the knowledge that the appeal was dismissed. 4. For all these reasons, the Civil Application is allowed. Appeal is restored to file. The Civil Application is accordingly disposed of. 5. The learned counsel for the Applicant/Appellant seeks permission of this Court to re-construct the record of the Appeal. Permission to re-construct the record is granted if at all it is not eliminated by this time. Reconstruction of record to be done within a period of four weeks from today at the costs of the Appellant. [C.L.PANGARKAR, J]