*1* IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.10066/2009 Padmini Nandkumar Nair. ..Petitioner -VERSUS- Vamanrao Daguji Bodake and others. ..Respondents ............... Mr.A.M.Kulkarni, Advocate for the Petitioner. ............... CORAM: A.P. DESHPANDE, J. Dated 02nd December, 2009. PC:- 1 The Trial Court permitted the filing of Written Statement though the same was beyond the period permitted under Order-8 Rule-1 of the Civil Procedure Code. The said provision is directory in nature and the Court is possessed of discretion to permit the filing of Written Statement beyond the period stipulated. The grievance is that in the present case, the Trial Court proceeded on wrong premise that the application was not opposed though the Petitioner had objected the filing of Written Statement by filing say. 2 Be that as it may, in my view there is no need to interfere with the impugned order more so when the same is passed more than a year before i.e. on 23.10.2008 and the suit must have, thereafter, proceeded further. It will not be in the interest of justice to interfere with the impugned order at this stage. In the result, Writ Petition is summarily dismissed. (A.P. Deshpande, J)