ASMP.No.408 of 2015 is filed for condonation of delay of 801 days in filing the appeal i.e., AS (Sr) No.9795 of 2014 against the judgment and decree, dated 18-04-2012, in OS.No.276 of 2007, on the file of the Court of the learned IX Additional District Judge (FTC), Visakhapatnam.

For convenience, the parties shall be hereinafter referred to as arrayed in AS (Sr) No.9795 of 2014.

In the affidavit, filed in support of ASMP, all that appellant No.3 has stated for explaining the delay is as under:

“I submit that the Lower Court pronounced the judgment on 18th April, 2012. Copy application was filed on 5th July, 2014, and the copy was made ready on 13th August, 2014. In this connection, I humbly submit that I am not aware of the pronouncement of judgment by the Lower Court till I got applied for the copy application. Though the Lower Court dismissed the suit in respect of primary relief, the advocate appeared on my behalf, in spite of myself visiting the office, did not intimate the pronouncement of the judgment. When the respondents are intending to alienate the plaint schedule property, on coming to know about the same, when I insisted my advocate about the result of this sui