IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Revision No. 5623 of 2009 Date of Decision: March 26, 2010 Raj Kumari and another …Petitioners Versus Swaran Mehta and others. …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D. ANAND. Present: Mr. Sumeet Mahajan, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Sham Lal Bhalla, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. R.M. Gupta and Ms. Sonal Dutta, Advocates, for respondent Nos. 1 to 4. S.D. Anand, J. The petitioners - females were convicted by the learned Trial Court on a charge of violation of the orders of the Court and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for a period of three months each. The petitioners herein challenged that order before the learned First Appellate Court and also filed a plea for condonation of delay in the filing thereof. Along with the appeal, they also filed a plea for the stay for the operation of the impugned order. The C.R. No.5623 of 2009 stay was declined by the learned Additional District Judge by observing that the grant thereof is barred by the provisions of Order 41 Rule 3-A(3) of the Code of Civil Procedure as the appeal has not yet been registered and that it would come to be registered only after the plea for condonation of delay is allowed. It is common ground otherwise that the petitioners herein had since been released on bail under the orders of a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court. The petition is disposed of with a direction that the learned First Appellate Court shall dispose of the application for condonation of delay and also the main appeal within one month from the date already fixed before it. The petitioners shall not be arrested till then. Disposed of accordingly. March 26, 2010 ( S.D. Anand ) vkd Judge 2