https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=235410 Inordinate delay by a department in filing a Central Excise appeal was not condoned because the explanation was neither reasonable nor bona fide. The Court held that merely stating that the matter moved through internal approval levels, or that prior rectification and writ proceedings were pursued, does not satisfactorily explain the long unexplained intervening period. Government litigants remain bound to show acceptable cause for extraordinary delay, and routine references to procedural red tape are insufficient. The motion for condonation was therefore rejected, and the appeal was not permitted to proceed. en-us Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:48:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=235410 Inordinate delay by a department in filing a Central Excise appeal was not condoned because the explanation was neither reasonable nor bona fide. The Court held that merely stating that the matter moved through internal approval levels, or that prior rectification and writ proceedings were pursued, does not satisfactorily explain the long unexplained intervening period. Government litigants remain bound to show acceptable cause for extraordinary delay, and routine references to procedural red tape are insufficient. The motion for condonation was therefore rejected, and the appeal was not permitted to proceed. Case-Laws Central Excise Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=235410