2003 (8) TMI 348

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..... ate, for the Appellant. Shri O.P. Arora, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : V.K. Agrawal, Member (T)]. - These are nine applications for condonation of delay in filing the Appeal by 40 days. 2. Shri Bipin Garg, learned Advocate submitted that the impugned Order dated 28-8-2002 was received by the Applicants on 24-10-2002 whereas the appeals have been filed in the Registry of the Tribu .....

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..... fore, requested that the delay may be condoned. 3. Opposing the prayer, Shri O.P. Arora, learned Advocate, submitted that the reasons advanced by the Appellants are not sufficient to condone the delay; that all the Applicants are not dependent only on Dr. R.K. Mehra as the Vakalatnama of another Advocate has also been filed; that during the relevant period all the manufacturing units were wo .....

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..... t engaged by the Applicants being preoccupied with the serious illness of his daughter and subsequently his own sickness. We, therefore, found that the Applicants had satisfactorily explained the delay in filing the appeals. The decisions relied upon by the learned Senior Departmental Representative are not applicable to the facts of the present matter as in the case of Navpad Textiles Indus. the .....

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