1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH AT NAGPUR Civil Application No. 2842/2010 in F. A. St. No. 15806/2010 V.I.D.C. thr. Executive Engineer, Medium Project Division,Nagpur..vs..Smt. Saraswatabai wd/o balkrishna Tambulkar & ors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or Court's or Judge's Orders directions and Registrar's orders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Palshikar, Advocate for applicant. Mr. Deshmukh, Advocate for respondent nos. 1,2,3-A,4,5. Ms Khan, A.G.P. for respondent nos. 6 and 7. CORAM: S. A. BOBDE AND S. B. DESHMUKH, JJ. DATED : 5 th APRIL, 2011 Civil Application No. 2842/2010 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The main reason for praying for condonation of delay is that the appellants got knowledge of the award dated 23.06.2008 on 06.02.2010 when the Land Acquisition Officer asked the appellants to pay decreetal amount. Mr. Deshmukh, the learned counsel for respondent nos. 1 to 5, states that knowledge can be attributed to the appellants since the predecessor organization namely Executive Engineer, Minor Irrigation Works, Nagpur had knowledge of the pendency of the reference under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act. In our view, this cannot be equated with the knowledge of the appellant-V.I.D.C. of the award in question. In the circumstances, the application for condonation of delay is allowed. The application stands disposed of accordingly. 2 Civil Application No. 1587/2010 Heard. This is an application filed by the respondent nos. 1 to 5 for withdrawal of the amount deposited by the appellants. The respondents shall be entitled to withdraw Rs.14,08,553/-, which is 50% of the decreetal amount, subject to the applicants’ depositing security to the satisfaction of the Registrar of this Court. The application stands disposed of accordingly. JUDGE JUDGE kahale