2015 (5) TMI 917

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..... should not be made to suffer due to the lackadaisical attitude of the Counsel engaged and represented them before the first appellate authority. - Delay condoned conditionally. - Application No. ST/COD/98091/14, Appeal No. ST/89910/14 - - - Dated:- 6-4-2015 - M V Ravindran, Member (J) And P S Pruthi, Member (T),JJ. For the Appellant : Mr R M Saxena, Adv. For the Respondent : Mr R K D .....

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..... an appellant would not be deprived of legal right to appeal as time barred if the delay is due to Advocate. 4. Learned DR on the other hand would submit that the appellant herein has not justified, as neither did they file any reply to the show-cause notice nor did they appear before the adjudicating authority despite receipt of the show-cause notice. He submits that there was delay in filing t .....

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..... e of the Counsel engaged and represented them before the first appellate authority. To that extent, we accept the arguments made by the appellant and also find that the ratio of the Hon'ble High Court in the case of Shaikh Shahnawas Ali (supra) covers the issue. At the same time we find that appellant was not serious in pursuing the case, in as much that they did not file reply nor appeared be .....

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