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2000 (8) TMI 1039

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..... inst a common order dated 2-3-2000, passed by District Forum-VII (Sheikh Sarai), in Complaint Case No. 426 of 1999 - entitled Shri Anand Prakash v. Shri B.B. Sharma Complaint Case No. 427 of 1999- entitled Shri Anand Prakash v. Shri B.B. Sharma and Complaint Case No. 323 of 1999 - entitled Shri Anand Prakash v. Shri B.B. Sharma the same are being disposed of by this common order. 2. .....

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..... rded the shares for transfer in his own name but the shares were returned by the concerned companies with the report that the transferor s signatures did not match with the specimen signatures. Thereupon the appellant approached Shri Virender Pal Rastogi, Shri Rajinder Pal and Shri A.M. Johri for execution of fresh transfer deeds which were not executed despite repeated requests. The learned Distr .....

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..... being impugned in the present proceedings, was passed by the learned District Forum on 2-3-2000. In terms of the provisions contained in section 15 of the Act, the present appeals should have been filed within a period of thirty days of the order. However, proviso to above section provides that the State Commission may entertain an appeal even after the expiry of the abovesaid period of thirty day .....

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..... awn as to what affords sufficient cause in a given case, yet, again as per settled law, any cause which prevents a person from approaching the Court within time is sufficient cause . In doing so, it is the test of a reasonable man in normal circumstances which has to be applied. 5. Admittedly, the present appeals have not been filed by the appellant within the prescribed period of thirt .....

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..... te within the meaning of section 2(1)( e ). The complaints filed by the appellant before the District Forum, therefore, were not maintainable under the provisions of the Act. The learned District Forum, in our opinion, in the given facts, was fully justified in rejecting the complaints filed by the appellant, giving him the liberty to approach the appropriate Forum for redressal of his grievances, .....

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