1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 74 OF 2009 IN SECOND APPEAL St. NO. 26061 OF 2008 Smt. Hashmabi Abbas Kazi & anr.........Applicants versus Smt. Fatimabi Musa Kazi & anr......... Respondents. Mr. G.V. Limaye adv. for the Applicants Mr. R.C. Dhru adv. for the respondents CORAM: A. P. DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 16th FEBRUARY, 2009. P.C.: 1. By the present application a prayer for condonation of seven months delay is made in filing the second appeal. The appellants are husband and wife and the reasons assigned for the delay is in paragraph 3 of the application. It is the case of the appellants that beause of their ill-health the appeal could not be filed in time. It is stated that they are undergoing medical treatment. Medical certificates are placed on record which indicates that the appellant no.2 husband is suffering from tuberculosis of spine and sincr August 2007 is undergoing treatement in Shri Ramnath hospital with Dr. Sanjay Lotlikar M.D. The same consulting physician has also issued a certificate certifying that the appellant no. 1 wife is suffering from Angina 2 and that she is also taking treatment with him. The learned counsel for the respondent has pointed out that both the certificates are obtained on the same day and thus raises a serious doubt about the so called illness of the appellants. Be it as it may, the courts are expected to be liberal in the matter of condonation of delay and cannot take a pedantic approach. Taking a pragmatic view of the matter, I deem it appropriate to condone the delay in the interest of justice. Delay is thus condoned. Application is disposed of. (A. P. DESHPANDE, J.)