2018 (3) TMI 533

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....adma Divakar, Advocate for the applicant Ms. Vipul Joshi a/w. Mr. Sameer Dalal, Advocate for the respondent ORDER P. C. 1. These five Notices of Motions, seek condonation of 632 days delay in seeking to set aside the self-operating order dated 14th January, 2016 passed by the Prothonotary & Senior Master, High Court, Bombay directing the appellants to remove office objections within a ....

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....ere has been no attempt to explain the delay of 632 days in removing the office objections. All it states that, he was unaware of the conditional order without mentioning the date and the circumstances as to when he became aware of the order dated 14th January, 2016 of the Tribunal nor an attempt to explain the time taken to take steps to file the present Notice of Motion from the date of knowledg....

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....othered about the outcome of these appeals. It is for the Revenue or the Department to take the necessary action but they do not feel obliged to do so. They expect this Court to condone serious lapses in their functioning by accepting above cause as sufficient. The cause as set out and the explanation as forwarded today, on affidavit and belatedly, reflects total negligence and callousness of the ....

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....hem otherwise so as to subserve larger public interest. If they are found to be hand-in-glove with the assessee and adopt such tactics deliberately, then, we do not think that the Court is responsible for the same. The Registrar (O.S.) has been drawing up a list and notifying the appeals regularly and intimating the parties and their Advocates through the High Court website that they must attend t....