https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312039 Section 21(1)(a) of the Administrative Tribunals Act requires an application to be filed within one year from the final order, and delay can be excused only on sufficient cause under Section 21(3). In the stated facts, the punishment order was communicated in 2007 but the application was filed in 2015, with no explanation justifying condonation. The argument that pensionary claims created a continuing cause of action was not accepted to defeat the express limitation bar. The Tribunal should have first decided limitation as a preliminary issue rather than proceeding to the merits. en-us Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:57:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312039 Section 21(1)(a) of the Administrative Tribunals Act requires an application to be filed within one year from the final order, and delay can be excused only on sufficient cause under Section 21(3). In the stated facts, the punishment order was communicated in 2007 but the application was filed in 2015, with no explanation justifying condonation. The argument that pensionary claims created a continuing cause of action was not accepted to defeat the express limitation bar. The Tribunal should have first decided limitation as a preliminary issue rather than proceeding to the merits. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312039