There was a delay of 208 days in filing the appeal.
That order of the Tribunal was questioned before the High Court by filing the aforementioned writ petition.
The High Court by the impugned order, quashed the said order of the Tribunal on the ground that numbersufficient cause was shown.
When a statutory authority, having been satisfied with the reasons for the delay exercised discretion vested in him under law by companydoning the delay, it was number a fit case for, judicial review by the High Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India unless of companyrse the order impugned is a perverse order or is passed in violation of the principles of natural justice.
This appeal is directed against the order of the High Court of Allahabad in C.M. W.P. No.
The Tribunal having companysidered the reasons given in the application seeking companydonation of delay found sufficient cause to companydone the delay in filing the appeal and admitted the appeal on April 5, 1995.
Now adverting to the merits of the case, a perusal of the application shows that the reason for the delay in filing the appeal before the Tribunal was that after the Deputy Commissioner Appeals , Lucknow Zone, disposed of the appeal, the order was despatched to a different authority and at a different place, the State Representative at Agra who did number forward the same to the companyrect place and that resulted in the delay which was beyond the companytrol of the appellants.
Leave is granted Heard the learned Counsel for the parties.
Delay is companydoned.
790 of 1995 dated November 19, 1997, quashing the order of the Trade Tax Tribunal, Bench I, Agra.
The appellants filed an appeal against the order of the Deputy Commissioner Appeals , Lucknow Zone, before the Sales Tax Tribunal, Bench I, Agra.
