SHOMIT FINANCE LIMITED vs ARUN KUMAR SHARMA

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$~35 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 28th April, 2025 + CM(M) 2175/2024, CM APPL. 17193/2024 & CM APPL. 19953/2024 SHOMIT FINANCE LIMITED .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Shohit Chaudhary, Advocate. versus ARUN KUMAR SHARMA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Nikhilesh Kumar, Advocate (through V.C.) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. The point raised in the present petition is a very short one. 2. A complaint was filed by Mr. Arun Kumar Sharma (respondent herein) against M/s Shomit Finance Ltd. and another. Such complaint was filed before the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum – X, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi and was allowed vide order dated 29.05.2017. 3. Feeling aggrieved, the petitioner herein filed First Appeal before the learned State Commission, New Delhi which was registered as FA No.A/346/2017. 4. When such appeal was taken up for consideration by the learned State Commission on 01.12.2022, noticing that there was no appearance from the side of the appellant, it formed a view that the appellant was not interested in pursuing the matter and, resultantly, the same was dismissed for non-prosecution. 5. The appellant, initially, filed an application before the learned State Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 2175/2024 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:30.04.2025 11:26:59 Commission seeking restoration of its said appeal but such request was turned down for the reason that there was no such power of restoration with the learned State Commission. 6. Resultantly, a Revision Petition was filed before the learned National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (in short ‘NCDRC’) and such Revision Petition has also been dismissed vide order dated 16.01.2024. 7. It is in the abovesaid backdrop that the prese