CAW/1980/10 1 SSK/28 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 1980 OF 2010 IN WRIT PETITION NO.3309 OF 1998 Shri Shripati Nana Sawant & Ors. ...Applicants/ Org.Petitioners Versus The Collector, Satara & Ors. ....Respondents. Mr. Dilip Bodake, Advocate for the applicants. Mrs. M. P. Thakur, AGP. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & RANJIT MORE, JJ. DATED : 15th OCTOBER, 2010. P.C.: It appears that this writ petition was dismissed for default on 4th February, 2005. In this civil application a prayer is made that delay of 5 years and 134 days in filing the application for restoration of the writ petition be condoned and the writ petition be restored to file. 2. On the last occasion, we had asked the learned AGP whether the possession of the land in question has been taken by the respondents. Learned AGP on instructions from Sub-Divisional Officer, Phaltan Sub- Division, Phaltan makes a statement that the possession of the land in question has not been taken by the respondents. Copy of the letter CAW/1980/10 2 SSK/28 received by the learned AGP from Sub-Divisional Officer, Phaltan Sub- Division, Phaltan, is taken on record and marked as Exhibit “X”. In view of this and for the reasons stated in the civil application, the civil application is made absolute in terms of prayer clauses (a) and (b). The civil application is accordingly disposed of. (RANJIT MORE, J.) (SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.)