1994 (11) TMI 307

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....D Y. KRISHAN AND B.S. YADAV, MEMBERS   M.N. Krishnamani and K.P. Sunder Rao for the Petitioner. ORDER V. Balakrishna Eradi, President - These two revision petitions arise out of two identically worded orders passed by the State Commission of Tamil Nadu at Madras in two connected matters that had arisen between the same parties. 2. The cases originated in two complaint petitions....

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....e appeals on the ground that they were time barred. Though we have serious doubts about the correctness of the approach made by the State Commission in dealing with the petition filed for condonation of delay in filing of the appeals, it is unnecessary for us to go deeper into the matter for the simple reason that the ex parte orders passed by the District Forum in this case were totally null and ....

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.... Fund v. Kartick Doss [1994] CPJ 7. In the circumstances, even if the appeals were presented out of time the State Commission, on its having come to know of such illegal and void orders having been passed by the District Forum, it was the bounden duty of the State Commission to have taken up these matters in suo motu revision and set aside the orders. Inasmuch as this has not been done, we conside....