https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294024 Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act permits a court to entertain an appeal after the prescribed period where sufficient cause is shown, and the provision must be applied liberally in light of the Act's beneficial purpose of securing just compensation for accident victims. A short delay in a motor accident claim, if bona fide, reasonably explained, and not marked by mala fides or negligence, should not be refused on hypertechnical grounds. On that approach, the 45-day delay was sufficiently explained and ought to have been condoned; the refusal to condone was unsustainable. en-us Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:13:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294024 Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act permits a court to entertain an appeal after the prescribed period where sufficient cause is shown, and the provision must be applied liberally in light of the Act's beneficial purpose of securing just compensation for accident victims. A short delay in a motor accident claim, if bona fide, reasonably explained, and not marked by mala fides or negligence, should not be refused on hypertechnical grounds. On that approach, the 45-day delay was sufficiently explained and ought to have been condoned; the refusal to condone was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294024