2001 (5) TMI 222

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..... [Order per : Jyoti Balasundaram, Member (J)]. The above appeals were dismissed for default by Final Order Nos. E/699-700/98-B-I, dated 29-4-1998. The applicants submit that they had closed their factory during January, 1997 and informed their counsel to intimate the Tribunal regarding change of address, they did not receive any notice of hearing of the appeals. They did not receive copy of t .....

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..... Shri Prabhat Kumar. 3. We have carefully considered the rival s submission. The appellants have not taken any steps to inform the Tribunal regarding their change of address for correspondence. They have also not been diligent in following up their case in the Tribunal. However, in the light of the factual background set out above and having regard to the cardinal principle that litigant should n .....

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