1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET No. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 5818 OF 2009 IN FIRST APPEAL (ST) NO. 10542 OF 2009 Office Notes,Office Memoranda of Coram,appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders Court's or Judge's orders CORAM : P.R. BORKAR,J. DATED : 24.06.2010 1. Heard A.G.P. Shri B.V. Wagh for the applicants and Adv. Shri A.N. Gaddime h/f. Adv. Shri V.D. Gunale for sole respondent. This is an application for condonation of delay of 660 days in filing appeal against judgment and award passed in L.A.R. No. 1728 of 2005. It is stated in the application that after decision on 19.12.2006, proposal was sent to the Law and Judiciary Department. The sanction was received by the office of Government Pleader, High Court Bench at Aurangabad on 29.05.2007. The appeal was drafted on 07.07.2007. Thereafter, there was delay in obtaining certified copies and typed copies of judgment so also Court fees. It is stated that 2 finally Court fees were received 30.10.2008. Inspite of that the appeal could be filed on 08.05.2009. So, even after everything was ready on 30.10.2008, seven months were spent for filing the appeal. 2. In order to satisfy that a meritorious matter is not being thrown out at the threshold on the point of limitation, this Court perused judgment of the Reference Court. The notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act was issued on 21.01.1997. Compensation of Rs. 1,50,000/- per hectare was awarded. 3. Not being satisfied that this is a special case, where the delay should be condoned in the interest of justice, the application for condonation of delay is dismissed. [P.R. BORKAR, J.] snk/2010/JUN10/ca5818.09