1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.16 OF 2010 IN FAMILY COURT APPEAL NO.54 OF 2007 Chandrabhan Sharma .. Applicant. Vs. Chitra Chandrabhan Sharma .. Respondent. Mr.S.J.Chaurasiya i/b Ashoka Law Firm for the applicant. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE & R.Y.GANOO, JJ. DATED : 18TH JANUARY, 2010 P.C. On 9.12.2009, in appeal, this court had passed the following order: “The matter is called out for final hearing. None appears for the Respondent. We find from the record that the Respondent has not appeared before the Family Court. According to the learned counsel for the Appellant, the Respondent has not appeared inspite service. The learned counsel for the Appellants submits that the Respondent has been served on the basis of publication in Newspaper. On a query made by the Court, the learned counsel for the Appellant stated that according to their information, the Respondent is residing at Mathura. We find that the notices have been published in a Newspaper having circulation in Mumbai. Accordingly, we are of the opinion that the service will have to be by publication in a Newspaper at the present place of residence of the Respondent. The learned S 2 counsel for the Appellant seeks time to make an appropriate application for substituted service.” 2. In pursuance of the aforesaid order the applicant has filed present application for substituted service and has made the following prayer. Prayer clause (a) read thus: “(a) That this Honorable Court be pleased to allow the applicant to serve the notice upon the Respondent through substituted services by publishing the notice in Indian Express/Navbharat Times, daily newspaper widely circulated in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.” 3. We are not inclined to grant prayer as is made in the application and we direct the applicant to serve notice upon the respondent through substituted service by publishing notice in Hindi newspaper, published from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, having large circulation in the city of Mathura, so also in Indian Express and Navbharat Times, daily newspaper having vide circulation in Mathura and published from New Delhi. The applicant to file affidavit alongwith copies of the newspapers within a period of four weeks from today. Stand over to 15.2.2010. (R.Y.GANOO, J.) (D.B.BHOSALE, J.)