: 1 : USJ IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.2177 OF 2007 IN FIRST APPEAL NO.1171 OF 2003 Smt. Surajabai Motilal Binayakya Jain .. Appellant V/s. The General Manager, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, & Ors. ..Respondents ..... Mr. N.R. Bubna for the appellant Mr. G.S. Hegde a/w. Mr. C.M. Lokesh for the respondent No.1. ..... CORAM : R.Y. GANOO, J. DATE : 29TH JUNE, 2009. P.C. : 1. By this civil application, appellant wanted this Court to read the copies of the income tax returns filed alongwith the income tax challans. I have already indicated that the Mangala has not produced the said returns before the trial Court though she had full opportunity to do so. Even the present appellant : 2 : has not stepped into the witness box to bring the income tax return on record. In my view, it would not be appropriate at this stage of the proceedings to read the copies of the income tax return because if that is done, it would cause prejudice to Respondent No.1. When a party had sufficient opportunity to place before the Court a document, if that document is not relied upon, it will not be appropriate for the Court to do it in the first appeal. It is not the case of the appellant that these copies were not available with original applicants at the time of trial. Even otherwise what is produced before the Court are xerox copies of Income Tax Returns. 2. For the reasons mentioned aforesaid the civil application will have to be dismissed. 3. Civil Application is dismissed with no order as to costs. (R.Y. Ganoo, J.)