IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BANGLADESH

HIGH COURT DIVISION

(CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION)

Present:

Mr. Justice Md. Badruzzaman.

And

Mr. Justice Sashanka Shekhar Sarkar

Civil Rule No. 16 (con) of 2011.

Bilkis Nessa and others.

...Petitioners. -Versus-

Mosammat Parveen Akter and others.

....Opposite parties

Mr. Ataul Gani, Advocate

… For the Petitioners

Mr. Md. Nurul Amin, Senior Advocate

… For the Opposite parties

Heard on: 08.01.2024 and 15.01.2024. Judgment on: 06.05.2024.

Sashanka Shekhar Sarkar, J:

This Rule, at the instance of the Petitioners was issued calling upon the Opposite Parties No. 1 to 14, 16 to18, 22 to 23 and 50 to show cause as to why the delay of 3057 days in filing Appeal against the judgment and decree dated 30.05.2002 (decree signed on 15.07.2002) passed by the learned Joint District Judge (Additional Court), Narayangonj in Title Suit No. 148 of 2001 should not be condoned.

The facts, relevant for disposal of this Rule, in short are that one Most. Parveen Akhtar, now the Opposite Party No. 1 as Plaintiff, filed a suit for partition claiming saham mentioned in the schedule of the plaint impleading as many as 49 persons as Defendants.

The suit was d