2006 (2) TMI 560

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..... DR, for the Respondent. [Order per : P.G. Chacko, Member (J)]. - There is a delay of four months and twenty-one days in the filing of the captioned appeal, for which an explanation of sorts is seen to have been given in an affidavit of Shri V.P. Namasivayam, learned Consultant for the appellants. This explanation reads thus :- The delay was caused partly due to pell-mell condition cause .....

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..... il, 2004. As regards the period of delay between mid January, 2004 and 1-3-2004, the Consultant s explanation is that he was pre-occupied with house construction, a plea not supported by any evidence. This apart, significantly, the party s affidavit does not even refer to the delay of his appeal, let alone explanation thereof. 3. For the reasons aforesaid, after hearing both sides and considerin .....

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