Civil Revision No. 36 of 2009 -1- *** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 36 of 2009 Date of decision : 23.2.2010 Kanta Devi ....Petitioner Versus Prem Chand ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. Sanjiv Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. Chankya Pandit Advocate for the respondent. S. D. ANAND, J. It is not a matter of controversy before this Court that there was delay of less than a week in the filing of the appeal before the learned District Judge. The following fact based facets are also not in dispute. The learned Rent Controller disposed of the adjudication on 13.9.2007. The petitioner herein applied for obtaining of certified copy of ejectment order on 21.9.2007. The copies were prepared and delivered on 24.9.2007. The appeal came to be filed before the learned Appellate Authority on 17.10.2007. In view of the commonness of view that the time taken for obtaining certified copies of the judgment and decree appealed against had to be excluded, it is apparent that there was delay of about five days in filing of appeal before the learned Appellate Authority. That is too little a period to enable the impeding of adjudication on merits by the learned Appellate Authority. The petition shall stand allowed. The delay in filing of the Civil Revision No. 36 of 2009 -2- *** appeal shall stand condoned. The parties, through their learned counsel, are directed to appear before the learned Appellate Court on 5.3.2010. The Appellate Authority shall; dispose of the appeal on merits thereof within fifteen days thereof i.e. w.e.f. 5.3.2010. February 23, 2010 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE