IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA WRIT PETITION NO. 491 OF 2010 MEENA SAWANT ... Petitioner Versus KUMAR HARI SAWANT ... Respondent Mr. F. E. Noronha, Advocate for the petitioner. Coram:- N. A. BRITTO, J. Date:- 1st July, 2010 P.C. Heard. 2. This is a defendant's Writ Petition and is directed against Order dated 5.5.2010 by which defendant application for amendment of written statement has been rejected. The defendant is a wife of the plaintiff. The plaintiff has filed a suit for divorce on the ground of ill-treatment and abandonment of the conjugal domicile by the defendant. The defendant filed the written statement on 11.10.2005. Counsel on behalf of the defendant submits that the suit is now fixed for defence evidence, though it is mentioned wrongly, that it is fixed for final arguments. What the defendant wishes to do by the proposed amendment is to set up a claim that a flat situated at Campal, Panaji was purchased by her exclusively by her own funds. Such amendment was certainly not required to decide the controversy between the parties, the suit being one for divorce, filed by the plaintiff. 3. In the circumstances the dismissal of the application also at the belated stage cannot be faulted. Writ petition disposed of. N. A. BRITTO, J. vn