Gujarat High Court
Neetaben W/O. Babuji Sagthaji Thakore vs State Of Gujarat on 25 September, 2025
NEUTRAL CITATION
R/CR.MA/9905/2025 ORDER DATED: 25/09/2025
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
R/CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION (FOR CONDONATION OF DELAY) NO.
9905 of 2025
In
F/CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 11529 of 2025
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NEETABEN W/O. BABUJI SAGTHAJI THAKORE
Versus
STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR.
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Appearance:
MS KIRAN D PANDEY(3337) for the Applicant(s) No. 1
NOTICE SERVED for the Respondent(s) No. 2
MS KRINA CALLA, APP for the Respondent(s) No. 1
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CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHEEKATI
MANAVENDRANATH ROY
and
HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D. M. VYAS
Date : 25/09/2025
ORAL ORDER
(PER : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHEEKATI MANAVENDRANATH ROY)
1. This application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act is filed seeking condonation of delay of 44 days in filing the appeal against the judgment of acquittal.
2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP, Ms.Krina Calla for the first respondent-State. Despite service of notice on respondent no.2, none appears. Thus, this application is not opposed by respondent no.2.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner, Ms.Kiran D. Pandey, submits that as the petitioner is a poor woman and she has no means to engage an advocate to prefer an appeal that she has approached the High Court Legal Services Committee for Page 1 of 2 Uploaded by R.S. MALEK(HC00180) on Thu Sep 25 2025 Downloaded on : Thu Sep 25 23:13:08 IST 2025 NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.MA/9905/2025 ORDER DATED: 25/09/2025 undefined appointment of legal aid counsel for her and, thereafter, a legal aid counsel was appointed for her and, in the said process, delay of 44 days has taken place in filing the appeal. Thus, the petitioner has satisfactorily explained the delay.
4. Therefore, the petition is allowed condoning the delay of 44 days in filing the appeal.
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