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....0-1983 3 Months 30-05-1984 131 C/539/84-B2 19-10-1983 3 Months 30-05-1984 131 C/540/84-B2 19-10-1983 3 Months 30-05-1984 131 C/844/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/845/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/846/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/847/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 The applicant has also filed 7 applications for Condonation of Delay. Shri Sanjay Grover, Ld. Advocate has reiterated the contentions made in the applications for condonation of delay. Shri Grover pleaded that the number of workers is more than 2,50,000 and M/s. Steel Authority of India Ltd. is a very big organisation and it is a Gov....

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....ty in default is government. The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the case of Ramlal and Others v. Rewa Coalfields Ltd. reported in AIR 1962 (SC) 361 had held that after the expiry of the limitation, the Respondent acquires substantial rights and the appellant has to explain each and every day's delay. Para No. 12 from the said judgment is reproduced below :- "It is, however, necessary to emphasise that even after sufficient cause has been shown a party is not entitled to the condonation of delay in question as a matter of right. The proof of a sufficient cause is a condition precedent for the exercise of the discretionary jurisdiction vested in the Court by S. 5. If sufficient cause is not proved nothing further has to be done; the app....