Key legal question
Whether the refusal to extend the response deadline under Art. 144(2) CPC was unconstitutional or arbitrary.
Extracted holding
The refusal was lawful: a deadline extension requires sufficiently substantiated reasons, and the debtor did not make any plausible showing of such reasons.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 144(2) CPC is discretionary, not automatic. The debtor's vague reference to 'various reasons, including health' did not plausibly establish a sufficient impediment, especially in a summary definitive debt-enforcement proceeding requiring speed.