HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY CIVIL REVISION PETITION No.1755 OF 2024

ORDER:

This Revision Petition is directed against the order dated

02.04.2024 passed in I.A.No.1381 of 2023 in AS(SR).No.6036 of 2023 on the file of the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad, whereby an application filed seeking to condone the delay of 285 days in filing the appeal against the judgment and decree dated 23.06.2020 passed in OS.No.2068 of 2015 on the file of V Junior Civil Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad, was dismissed.

2. Heard Sri B.Mohan, learned counsel for petitioners and Sri K.V.Mallikarjun Rao, learned counsel for respondent.

3. The issue that falls for consideration before this Court in this Civil Revision Petition is whether the petitioners have shown sufficient and valid grounds for condonation of delay in filing the Appeal against the judgment passed by the trial Court. Therefore, the merits of the suit vis-à-vis either parties to the suit are not relevant and hence, the same are not adverted to.

4. The petitioners, in the affidavit filed in support of the application to condone the delay of 285 days in filing the Appeal against the judgment of the trial Court, have princi