Appellate Authority Erred: Appeal Dismissed as Time-Barred Despite Intended Relaxation of Limitations for Registration Cancellation.

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....Cancellation of petitioner's registration - rejection of petition on the ground of time limitation - That being the intent of the Government to grant relaxation of limitation with respect to an order for cancellation of registration, it would defy plain logic to restrict that benefit to proceedings for revocation on such orders and to not extend the same to appeal proceedings. That construction if made, would give rise to an absurd situation. There would exist two dates of order cancelling a registration - one for the purpose of filing an application to revoke that order and another to file appeal there against. - The appellate authority has clearly erred in rejecting the appeal as time barred. - HC....