2021 (10) TMI 972

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..... delay in filing the appeal. Petitioner is unable to offer any better explanation for the delay except to say that since the question whether the employees in the NCERT were to be treated at par with the Central Government employees was pending consideration and was decided by the CIT (Appeals), Mysore only on 31st August 2017, the Petitioner could not have preferred an appeal earlier. The extr .....

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..... ndonation of delay of 2554 days in filing the appeal against the order dated 4th October 2011 of the Commissioner of Income Tax (CIT) (Appeals)-I, Bhubaneswar for the Assessment Year 2009-10. 3. The impugned order itself discusses in detail the lack of sufficient justification shown by the present Petitioner for the inordinate delay in filing the appeal. 4. Learned counsel for the Petitioner .....

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..... In a series of orders the Supreme Court has deprecated the practice adopted by the Departments of Government in approaching the Court belatedly for redressal of grievances either by way of appeal or petitions. A sampling of such orders is as under: (i) Order dated 13th January 2021 in SLP No.17559 of 2020 ( State of Gujarat v. Tushar Jagdish Chandra Vyas Anr .) (ii) Order dated 22nd Jan .....

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