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TMI Blog1990 (4) TMI 161X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... -1983 3 Months 30-05-1984 131 C/540/84-B2 19-10-1983 3 Months 30-05-1984 131 C/844/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/845/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/846/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 C/847/84-B2 26-12-1983 3 Months 13-07-1984 108 The applicant has also filed 7 applications for Condonation of Delay. Shri Sanjay Grover, Ld. Advocate has reiterated the contentions made in the applications for condonation of delay. Shri Grover pleaded that the number of workers is more than 2,50,000 and M/s. Steel Authority of India Ltd. is a very big organisation and it is a Government of India undertaking. The applicant should be given a liberal treatment and before the appeals could be filed, ne ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ported in AIR 1962 (SC) 361 had held that after the expiry of the limitation, the Respondent acquires substantial rights and the appellant has to explain each and every day's delay. Para No. 12 from the said judgment is reproduced below :- "It is, however, necessary to emphasise that even after sufficient cause has been shown a party is not entitled to the condonation of delay in question as a matter of right. The proof of a sufficient cause is a condition precedent for the exercise of the discretionary jurisdiction vested in the Court by S. 5. If sufficient cause is not proved nothing further has to be done; the application for condoning the delay has to be dismissed on that ground alone. If sufficient cause is shown then the Court has to ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... l Commissioner rejected the appellant's application for condonation of delay only on the ground that it was appellant's duty to file the appeal as soon as possible within the period prescribed, and that, in our opinion, is not a valid ground." In view of the above legal discussion, we hold that the appellant was not prevented by sufficient cause in the late filing of the appeals. We hold that these are not the fit matters where the Tribunal should exercise its discretion for condoing the delay. The above captioned 7 applications for condonation of delay are rejected. 3. Since we have rejected the applications for condonation of delay, we are not going into the merits of the appeals. The above captioned 7 appeals are dismissed being hit by ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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