1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.3400 OF 2010 M/s.Conwood Construction and Developers Pvt Ltd & Anr. .. Petitioners versus Mr.Cherian Kuruvilla & Ors. .. Respondents Mr.L.M.Acharya i/by Gyani & Dehlvi for the petitioners. Mr.Uday P. Warunjikar for the respondents. CORAM : A.S.OKA, J. DATE : 30th April 2010. P.C.: . Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioner. The petitioner is the original plaintiff. By the impugned order dated 17th February 2010, for detailed reasons recorded therein, the learned trial Judge has allowed the application filed by the respondents-defendants. By the impugned order, the defendants have been permitted to file the written statement subject to payment of costs. The grievance of the petitioners is that there is a gross delay of more than six hundred days and no exceptional reasons are set out in the application. 2. The learned trial Judge has recorded reasons for permitting the respondents-defendants to file written statement. Substantial justice has been done by the impugned order. The effect of the impugned order is that the respondents-defendants will be permitted to defend the suit by filing the written statement. This is not a case where interference can be made in writ jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. Petition is accordingly rejected. Hearing of the suit is expedited. (A.S.OKA,J)