2015 (7) TMI 666

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..... he Appellant. ORDER This is a Notice of Motion for condonation of delay of 1298 days in filing a statutory Appeal. 2. The Applicant before us is the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. It had filed a statutory Appeal before this Court challenging the order impugned before us. The same order is impugned in this fresh Appeal. However, the earlier Appeal was withdrawn with .....

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..... hat such Inter Departmental Dispute Resolution Mechanism cannot deprive parties of their statutory and legal rights. That order was passed in February, 2011 but the Appellant before us was unaware of this legal position until September, 2014 and when it realized that it should approach this Court again. 5. That is how this delay of 1298 days has occurred. We find that the explanation given f .....

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..... grounds or reasons. The delay in this case is enormous. None has come forward to own the responsibility and to pin point any lapse and specifically on their part, far from setting out the period during which such lapse of inaction occurred. Nothing of this nature has not been set out. No explanation is forthcoming as to where and with whom the files were pending and it was whole responsibility to .....

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