1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 7828 OF 2005 IN SECOND APPEAL ST. NO. 11872 OF 2005 Balu Babu Kakade - - Applicant Versus 1. Jalsabai Babu Kakade Died 2. Bai Ramu Shinde and others - - Respondents Mrs. Madhveshwari Mhase, Advocate for the Applicant. None present for the respondents. CORAM : P. R. BORKAR, J. DATE : 24TH JUNE, 2009. ORAL ORDER : 1. Heard Mrs. Mhase advocate for the applicant. None present for the respondents. This is an application for condonation of delay of 1554 days in filing the second appeal. The original suit was for partition filed by the respondents No. 1 and 2. The decree was passed by the Trial Court and same was confirmed by the District Court Ahmednagar in first appeal. It is stated in the application that the applicant had left village due to drought conditions and in search of labour work. Therefore, he 2 could not come back and in or about Diwali 2004 he learnt about the dismissal of appeal and therefore approached his advocate and thereafter took steps to file appeal and ultimately filed it on 04.07.2005. The reasons absolutely are not satisfactory. There may be drought condition for one or two years. The delay in filing appeal is from 03.04.2001 to 04.07.2005. Moreover, it is stated that in about Diwali 2004 the appellant learnt about dismissal of the appeal in the District Court and thereafter also he did not file appeal for about seven months. No satisfactory reasons given in the application. Application is dismissed as there are no satisfactory reasons given. [ P. R. BORKAR, J] bsb/June 09/CA 7768.05