ash 1 caf-3597.09 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.3597 OF 2009 IN FIRST APPEAL ST.NO.18342 OF 2009 Office Notes, Office memorandum of Coram, appearances, Court’s Court’s or orders or directions & Judge’s orders. Registrar’s orders. Shri A.C. Gore for the Applicant. Ms Gayatri Sharma i/by Shri S.V. Dhakephalkar for the Respondent No.1. -- CORAM : A.S.OKA, J. DATE : 28TH SEPTEMBER, 2011 P.C.: . Heard learned counsel appearing for the Applicant. The application is opposed by the learned counsel appearing for the first Respondent. 2. Leave to prefer an appeal has been granted in favour of the Applicant. The contention of the Applicant is that the second Respondent firm is not in existence. The contentions raised in the reply are basically on the merits of the appeal. By keeping the said contentions open, the delay of 191 days will have to be condoned, as sufficient cause is made out. The rule is made absolute in terms of prayer clause (a). However, all the contentions raised by the first Respondents on merits are kept open. (A.S.OKA, J)