1 1460.11-wp-- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1460 OF 2011 Vinod G. Motwani and another. ... Petitioners. V/s. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. and another. ... Respondents. WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1461 OF 2011 Milind Tamhane and another. ... Petitioners. V/s. Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. and another. ... Respondents. Shri Upadhyay i/b. Law Juris for the petitioners. A.P.Mundargi with Ms.Pravina Kanani and Sunil D’Souza i/b. M/s.Negandhi Shah & Himaytullah for respondent No.1. S.S.Pednekar, APP for the State. CORAM: B.R.GAVAI, J. DATED : 30th June 2011. P.C. : The petitioners have filed these petitions in the year 2011 challenging the order of issuance of process passed in the year 2003. The petitioner invoking extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court is expected to invoke it at the earliest opportunity. No doubt, this is a rule of a self-restraint and in a given case, if the petitioner makes out a case for invoking 2 1460.11-wp-- jurisdiction even at the belated stage, the Court would not be be precluded from dong so. However, on perusal of the present petitions, it would reveal that leave apart giving any reason for belated filing of these petitions, there is no whisper of the same in the memo of petitions. Apart from that, it is informed at bar that the proceedings are at the stage that after recording the plea of the accused the evidence of the complainant has begun and one of the witness on behalf of the complainant is being cross-examined. In that view of the matter, both petitions are liable to be dismissed on this short ground of delay and laches. Both the petitions are, therefore, dismissed. (B.R.GAVAI, J.)