(Spl.-H.C.A.S.,C.D.,78-e) FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO. 520 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. S.N. Joshi, Advocate for the Petitioners. Mr. V. Menezes, Advocate for the Respondents. Coram : S.A. BOBDE, J. Date : 10th June 2004. P.C.: The petitioners have challenged the Order, dated 1st July 2003, by which the learned Civil Judge, Junior Division, Margao has set aside the Order directing that the suit should proceed against the petitioners exparte. However, the learned Civil Judge, Junior Division, has held the petitioners not entitled to file any written statement on the ground that the limitation period prescribed under Order VIII, Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure has expired. Thus, the petitioners are allowed to participate in the suit, however, - 2 - without a written statement. 2. After hearing the parties for some time, the parties have arrived at a consensus on the basis of which the following Order is passed:- The petitioners shall be entitled to file their written statement within a period of two weeks from today, subject to payment of costs in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- to the respondents. Petition disposed off accordingly. S.A. BOBDE, J. ed’s.