Gujarat Industrial Development ... vs Merchem Limited & Anr
- CitationCompany Appeal (AT) (Insolvency) No. 1106 of 2022
Ratio decidendi
The rule this decision rests on
A delay in refiling a defective appeal is not condoned where the delay is inordinate and the applicant gives no satisfactory explanation for it, nor shows the vigilance required to ensure the appeal is refiled at an early date; in such a case the court rejects the application for condonation of delay and, consequently, the memo of appeal.
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Judgment
As delivered
The Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation & Anr. ...Appellants
Versus
Merchem Ltd. & Anr. ...Respondents
Present: For Appellants: Mr. Shivmangal Sharma, Mr. Shrinjan Khosla, Mr. Siddharth Puri and Mr. Santosh Kumar, Advocates. For Respondents:
ORDER
09.09.2022: I.A. No. 3279 of 2022
This is an application filed for condonation of 618 days delay in refiling
the present Company Appeal. The Company Appeal was filed by the Appellant
against the order dated 06.11.2020 in this Tribunal on 21.12.2020 and has
been refiled on 08.09.2022.
2. In the application for condonation of delay, it has been submitted that
on 29.02.2022, the office of the counsel was shifted and in the said shifting
the file pertaining to the captioned case went missing and thereafter the filed
was reconstructed on 31.08.2022.
3. When the appeal was filed on 21.12.2020 and on 22.02.2020 this
Tribunal scrutinize the appeal and defects were notified, the shifting of office
of the counsel, as claimed, is on 29.02.2022 i.e. after more than four months.
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4. Learned counsel for the Appellant submits that due to COVID-19
documents required from the Department for refiling cannot be managed.
5. The delay in refiling is inordinate and no satisfactory reason has been
given in the application to condone delay of 618 days in refiling the appeal.
The Appellant, who had filed the Appeal is also not shown to be vigilant to
ensure that the appeal is refiled at an early date. The delay being inordinate,
we reject the application for condoning refiling delay. In view of the aforesaid,
the Memo of Appeal is rejected.
[Justice Ashok Bhushan] Chairperson
[Barun Mitra] Member (Technical) Archana/nn
Company Appeal (AT) (Insolvency) No. 1106 of 2022
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