In the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh RSA No. 2038 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision: July 16, 2008 Sarwan Singh ... Appellant versus Prem Sagar Bedi ... Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.N. Jindal Present: Mr. Ramesh Sharma, Advocate for the appellant. A.N. Jindal, J (Oral) C.M. No. 6148-C of 2008 C.M. is allowed. Deficiency of Court Fee is made good. C.M. No. 6149-C of 2008 A prayer for condonation of 242 days delay in filing the appeal against the judgment and decree dated 9.6.2007 passed by the learned Additional District Judge, Amritsar has been made. It is stated that though the counsel had informed him about the decision but he mistook that the decision in his appeal was reserved by the learned Additional District Judge, Amritsar, but later on he came to know that his appeal was dismissed, therefore, there are reasonable grounds to condone the delay. Heard. From the application it is revealed that the counsel had informed him about the result of the appeal, in such situation, it was the bounden duty of the appellant to apply for the copy of the order. In this case though the judgment was pronounced on 9.6.2007, yet, he applied for the copy of the order only on 10.3.2008 which was supplied to him on 13.3.2008. He has stated nothing if he enquired about the decision at a later date after 1.6.2007. RSA No. 2038 of 2008 (O&M) 2 *** In any case, had the judgment been reserved, as pleaded by the appellant, then he would have gone to his counsel to know about the result but it appears that he kept waiting for it for about a year which explanation does not seems to be plausible. Consequently, it would be safe to conclude that the plaintiff- appellant has failed to show reasonable grounds for condoning the delay in filing the appeal. It is also observed that if this continuous negligence is approved and the words “sufficient grounds” are considered with relaxation then there would be mis-utilization of the provisions and the superfluous litigation is likely to over flood the courts of law. As such, the application fails. Consequently, the appeal is also dismissed. July 16, 2008 (A.N. Jindal) deepak Judge