1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE WRIT PETITION NO.3952 of 2010 Dhondiba Laxman Tevurwadkar @ Patil ... Petitioner versus Surao Laxman Patil & ors. ... Respondents ... Mr. Sagar Mane i/b N.V. Bandiwadekar for the petitioner. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 11th June 2010 P.C. 1. Petition is directed against the order of the Appellate Court dated 12th March 2010 declining to condone the delay. 2. The delay is of 9 years 5 months and 16 days. Although the length of delay by itself cannot be a ground for rejection, petitioner was required to offer a reasonable cause for the delay. Only vague allegations were made in the application that on account of the illness and old age, there was a delay in filing of an appeal. What was the illness, the duration of the illness was not mentioned in the application for condonation of delay. Though the plaintiff was old at the time filing of the appeal, he was also old when the suit was filed and when the suit 2 was decided. The age did not prevent him from prosecuting the suit and there is no reason why it would have prevented him from filing an appeal. The appellate court has not committed any error in rejecting the application for delay. Writ Petition is rejected summarily. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)