/'^"^^ ^ 'fe^ 'l v^ ^%.^— ;^a- ^°^ HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR DIVISION BENCH CORAM: HON'BLE SHRI RAJEEV GUPTA, C.J. & HON'BLE SHRI RANGNATH CHANDRAKAR, J. Applicant M.C.C.No.711of 2011 Jituram Nagesiya, s/o late Chhatu Nagesiya, aged about 55 years, occupation agriculture, r/o village Kansikona, P.S. Palkot, district Gumla (Jharkhand), at present r/o Gajendra Ram Nagesiya, village Lokhandi, tahsil and district Jashpur C.G. Non-applicants 1 VERSUS Navin Kumar Jha, s/o Kalikant Jha, aged about 29 years, occupation Driver, r/o Laxminagar Gumla, tahsil and district Gumla (Jharkhand) The New India Insurance Company Limited, Local Branch Office Raigarh, district Raigarh C.G. ApDlication for restoration of MAC No.100 of 2009 Present: Shri Shaktiraj Sinha, counsel for the petitioner. Shri HP Agrawal, counsel for respondent No.2. ORDER (17th October, 2011) The following order of the Court was passed by Rajeev Gupta, C.J. Learned counsel for the parties are heard on the restoration petition. ^J:^!^\ fi^ ^ M.C.C.No.711 of 2011 @ 2) The petitioners are seeking restoration of MAC No. 100 of 2009, which came to be dismissed for want of prosecution vide orderdated 30.09.2011. 3) On due consideration of the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and the groundstaken in the restoration petition, we are satisfied that the absence of the petitioner's/appellant's counsel on 30.09.2011, when MAC No. 100 of 2009 was taken-up for hearing, was based on bona fide grounds. 4) M.C.C. No.711 of 2011, therefore, is allowed and MAC No. 100 of 2009 is restored to its original number. subbu Sd/- Chief Justice Sd/- R.N. Chandrakar Judge