1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET No. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD C.A. NO. 5080 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8975 OF 2009 C.A. NO. 5082 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8999 OF 2009 C.A. NO. 5088 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8997 OF 2009 (for condonation of delay) WITH C.A. NO. 5081 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8975 OF 2009 C.A. NO. 5083 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8999 OF 2009 C.A. NO. 5089 OF 2009 IN F.A. (ST) NO. 8997 OF 2009 (for delay) 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. B.V. Wagh for the applicant and Adv. Shri S.V. Mundhe and for concerned respondents - claimants. 2. These are applications for condonation of delay of 231 days in filing First Appeals. The First Appeals are directed against group of three land acquisition references decided by a common judgment on 15.04.2008. It is 2 stated in the application that after decision on 15.04.2008, proposals were made to the Law and Judiciary Department. The sanction to file appeals was received by the office of Government Pleader, High Court, Bench at Aurangabad on 23.10.2008. Thereafter, certified copies were called for. Some time was spent in receiving certified copies and typed copies of judgment, difference chart etc. 2. In order to satisfy that a meritorious matter is not being thrown out at the threshold on the technical point of limitation, this Court perused the judgment with the help of learned A.G.P. and the learned advocates for the respondents. It does not appear that the delay should be condoned in the public interest. No satisfactory reasons are given for condoning the delay. 3. In the result, the applications for condonation of delay are dismissed. 3 4. In view of dismissal of the applications for condonation of delay, the connected applications for stay do not survive and they are disposed of as such. [P.R. BORKAR, J.] snk/2010/JUN10/ca5080.09