MEHTABSAB Vs. YUSUF

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Second Additional District Judge, Bijapur, has refused to condone the delay in filing Miscellaneous Appeal No. 17 of 2008. The records reveal that MVC No. 985 of 1995 was disposed of on 13-9-2002 by MACT-VI, Bijapur. Petitioner herein filed application for setting aside the ex parte award dated 13-9-2002 in Miscellaneous Application No. 55 of 2005 under Order 9, Rule 13 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908. The same came to be dismissed by the First Additional Civil Judge, Senior Division, Bijapur, on 23-6-2008. The order passed in Miscellaneous Application No. 55 of 2005 was assailed by the petitioner before the Second Additional District Judge, Bijapur, in Miscellaneous Appeal No. 17 of 2008 with the delay of 44 days. The First Additional District Court refused to condone the delay of 44 days by the impugned order.

(2.) Since the valuable rights of the parties are involved in the appeal, the proper course to be adopted by the District Court was to hear the appeal on merits and thereafter pass orders, which means, the delay ought to have been condoned by the District Court.