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2022 (9) TMI 533 - HC - VAT and Sales TaxCondonation of delay of 163 days, 207 days & 197 days in filing appeal - availability of statutory appellate remedy - time limitation - HELD THAT:- Having perused the reasons indicated in the application for condonation of delay it emerges that the order of the learned Tribunal is dated 23.04.2019. The revision itself has been filed after a delay of 163 days. The reasons have been indicated in paragraphs 3 to 8 of the said application by indicating that initially a proposal had been sent for filing of a revision petition and thereafter the documents were sent. Later, the permission was sought for filing of revision which was received from the law department vide sanction letter dated 15.07.2019 and a request subsequently was made in July, 2019 to the office of the learned Chief Standing counsel, High Court, Lucknow for filing of a revision. The file was allotted for drafting after a period of almost one month and it took the learned Standing counsel a period of almost four and half months to file the revision and hence the delayed filing of revision. A perusal of paragraphs 3 to 8 of the application of condonation of delay would indicate that a very cavalier and casual attitude has been shown by the revisionist in filing the instant revision inasmuch as file and papers/permissions have been shunted from one desk to the other. Even though the file has reached the "ultimate destination" for drafting of the revision i.e to the concerned learned counsel for drafting of the revision in August, 2019 yet it has taken more than four months for the revision to be drafted despite limitation period of three months being prescribed under the statute for filing of a revision. The application for condonation of delay in all the aforesaid revisions having been rejected, the revisions are dismissed.
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