2000 (11) TMI 376

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....JDR, for the Respondents. [Order]. -  This Miscellaneous Application seeks condonation of delay of about 132 days in filing appeal. 2. Shri S.N.S. Mahapatra, learned Advocate for the applicant, submits that delay had occurred due to the illness of the father of the Dealing Assistant of the appellant company which eventually led to the Dealing Asstt.'s resignation from the employ....

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....nnection, he invited attention to the decision of the Kerala High Court in Messrs. Standard Trades Private Ltd. v. C.C.E., Cochin : 1996 (83) E.L.T. 30 (Ker.) and the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of State of Haryana v. Chandramani - 1996 (64) ECR 15 (S.C.). He also refers to the decision of this Bench in Roy Electrical Works v. C.C.E., Jamshedpur - 2000 (39) RLT 61 (CEGAT) whe....

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.... the learned JDR submits that the delay was condoned when that was on account of the papers being lost. Since the facts of the case referred to above are different from the facts of the present case, the learned JDR submits that there are no adequate grounds to condone the delay. At this stage, Shri Mahapatra, learned Advocate, submits that during the relevant time, he himself being a retainer of ....