..(1).. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1316 OF 2003 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1300 OF 2002 The State of Maharashtra. ..Applicant. Versus Versus Versus Dhananjay Gajanan Patil and Anr. ..Respondents. .... Mr.V.B.Konde-Deshmukh, APP, for the Applicant-State. .... CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. DATED : 23rd June, 2008. DATED : 23rd June, 2008. DATED : 23rd June, 2008. P.C.: 1. Heard the learned APP for the State. 2. Being aggrieved by the judgment and order of acquittal dated 30th September, 1996 passed by the learned J.M.F.C. Palghar, Dist-Thane in S.C.C. No.3199 of 1995, the applicant-State had preferred Criminal Appeal No.1300 of 2002. As there was delay of 5 years and 322 days in filing the Appeal, present application for condonation of delay has been preferred. ..(2).. 3. I have perused the application and the reasons stated therein. The application for certified copy was preferred after 242 days. There was delay of 1759 days in sending the proposal for filing appeal against acquittal to the Law & Judiciary Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai. No explanation at all has been furnished for the delay of 242 days in preferring application for certified copy, as well as for the delay of 1759 days in sending the proposal. In my view, no sufficient cause has been made out for condonation of delay, hence application is rejected. (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.)