The Municipal Corporation Of Gr. Bombay v. Savitri Dsouza

20-CAF2071-09-D.DOC Shephali

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 2071 OF 2009 IN FIRST APPEAL (ST) NO. 11311 OF 2009 The Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay ...Applicant

Versus

Savitri D'Souza

...Respondent

Mrs MR Bhoir, for the Applicant/Appellant-MCGM.

Mrs Sultana Sonawane, for the Respondent No. 1. CORAM: G.S. PATEL, J DATED:

1st August 2017 PC:- 1.

There is a delay of 452 days in filing the First Appeal. The delay is explained by some quite exceptional justifications given in paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the civil application: the MCGM's (and its officers') heavy work load, the large amount of typing and printing required, the many thousands of litigations in different courts, having to handle RTI queries, and consequently facing contempt actions in this Court for either taking or not taking action, as also on account of the MCGM and its officers being arrayed as respondents in innumerable PILs.

1st August 2017

20-CAF2071-09-D.DOC 2.

These reasons are, in my view, refreshing in their irresistible candour (to say nothing of their anodyne guilelessness), and must be accepted.

3.

The Civil Application is made absolute and disposed of accordingly. No costs.

(G. S. PATEL, J) 1st August 2017