BAJAJ ALLIANZ GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD vs MANJU DEVI VISHWAKARMA & ORS.

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$~4 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 23rd January, 2025 + MAC.APP. 29/2025 BAJAJ ALLIANZ GENERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD .....Appellant Through: Mr. Danish Aftab Chowdhury, Adv. (through VC) versus MANJU DEVI VISHWAKARMA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN AMIT MAHAJAN, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 2027/2025 (exemption from filing certified, legible, true typed copies of the relied documents) 1. Exemption allowed, subject to all just exceptions. 2. The application stands disposed of. CM APPL. 2026/2025 (condonation of delay of 141 days in filing the present appeal) 3. The present application is filed under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 seeking condonation of delay of 141 days in filing the accompanying appeal against the award dated 04.05.2024 (hereafter ‘the impugned award’) passed by the learned Presiding Officer, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi in MACT No. 285/2021. Signature Not Verified Signed By:HARMINDER MAC.APP. 29/2025 Page 1 of 6 KAUR Signing Date:29.01.2025 13:18:07 4. The learned counsel for the appellant (applicant), while making an effort to justify the delay, submits that the impugned award passed on 04.05.2024, copy of the judgment was received in due course. Thereafter, opinion was sought by different counsel at Pune (the head office of the appellant company is situated in Pune) and Delhi (counsel of the company which gave an opinion to file the instant appeal). He submits that some time had gone into taking an informed decision and approval by the legal team of the appellant company. He submits that the delay was neither intentional and nor deliberate. 5. Sans the above averments, there is nothing else stated which is/or, for the matter, can be said to be material or of