TMI Blog2017 (7) TMI 1052X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... entertain the appeal and number the same and decide the issue on merits and in accordance with law, after affording reasonable opportunity of hearing to both sides and dispose of the appeal within a period of one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. If the petitioner-Company fails to represent the matter for any reason whatsoever, the second respondent is directed to pass orders on merits based on the documents available on record. - W.P.No.35641 of 2003, W.P.M.P.No.43296 of 2003 - - - Dated:- 14-7-2017 - S. Vaidyanathan, J. For the Petitioner : Mr.R.Ramesh For the Respondents : Mr.J.Madana Gopal Rao ORDER The issue involved in this Writ Petition is that the authorities concerned have not condoned ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... being the life-purpose for the existence of the institution of Courts. It is common knowledge that this Court has been making a justifiably liberal approach in matters, instituted in this Court. But the message does not appear to have percolated down to all the other Courts in the hierarchy. And such a liberal approach is adopted on principle as it is realized that:- Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, may be admitted after the prescribed period if the appellant or the applicant satisfies the Court that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal or making the application within such period. 1. Ordinarily a litigant doe ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... y was altogether irrelevant. The doctrine of equality before law demands that all litigants, including the State as a litigant, are accorded the same treatment and the law is administered in an even-handed manner. There is no warrant for according a stepmotherly treatment when the 'State' is the applicant praying for condonation of delay. In fact experience shows that on account of an impersonal machinery (no one in charge of the matter is directly hit or hurt by the judgment sought to be subjected to appeal) and the inherited bureaucratic methodology imbued with the note-making, file pushing, and passing-on-the-buck ethos, delay on its part is less difficult to understand though more difficult to approve. In any event, the State wh ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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