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Hi,
On the next date please ask your advocate to press about the delay and get the right to file reply to be revoked. Let the matter be heard without their presence and get orders.
In case you wish to change your advocate. Or want further suggestive remedy.
Please do get in touch with all details & documents of your Writ Petition.
Dear Sir,
What you or your advocate can do next
At the next hearing, your counsel can formally request the Hon’ble Court to: “Kindly record the non-appearance of Respondent No. __ despite due service of notice and proceed ex parte.”
Once the Court records that, you can argue the matter on merits, and the final order will bind her even though she never appeared.
As such in case of WRIT law does not prescribe limitation for filing counter or reply. However, you can highlight the issue of non filing of reply and court has every power to close the opportunity of respondent in filing its reply.