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2018 (8) TMI 1837

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..... completed. By now, the adjudicating authority could well have passed the adjudication order - More or less, it is settled law that if in a quasi-judicial proceeding, a witness is produced by a party, the other party necessarily has a right of cross-examination. If we choose to formally hear out the appeal on the pure legal point whether the respondent could insist on a right of crossexamination, i .....

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..... eal is condoned. The application for condonation of delay (GA No. 2234 of 2018) is allowed. The appeal is formally admitted. The judgment and order against which the appellant prefers this appeal was made on 14th May 2018. It is a very well reasoned judgment. It identifies the right of the respondents to cross-examine the witness of the appellant and the lac .....

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..... delayed, unnecessarily. By consent of the parties, we treat the appeal as in the hearing list. The appellant is directed to immediately fix the date and time for cross-examination of their witness and to conclude the adjudication within two months from the date of communication of this order. The appeal (APOT No. 56 of 2018) and the stay application (GA No. 2235 of 2018) are di .....

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