MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI vs M/S MANMOHAN SINGH WADHWA CONSTRUCTIONS PVT LTD

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$~8 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + RFA(COMM) 356/2025, CM APPL. 41378/2025, 38302/2025 & 57142/2025 MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI .....Appellant Through: Mr. Sanjay Vashishtha, Standing Counsel with Mr. Siddharth Goswami, Ms. Geetanjali Reddy and Mr. Aditya Sachdeva, Advocates. versus M/S MANMOHAN SINGH WADHWA CONSTRUCTIONS PVT LTD .....Respondent Through: Mr. Avinash Trivedi, Mrs. Ritika Trivedi, Mr. Rahul Aggarwal, Mr. Anurag Kaushik, Mr. Rhythem Nagpal, Mr. Jatin Arora and Mr. Rishank Gola, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 17.11.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. RFA (Comm) 356/2025 and CM APPL. 41378/2025 (delay) 1. This is an application seeking condonation of delay of 99 days in filing the present appeal, which is directed against order dated 24 December 2024 passed by the learned District Judge, Commercial Court. The appeal was originally accompanied by CM APPL. Signature Not Verified Signed By:GUNN RFA(COMM) 356/2025 Page 1 of 7 Signing Date:20.11.2025 13:05:46 38301/2025 seeking condonation of delay in filing the appeal. As the said application did not contain satisfactory grounds, we granted time to the appellant, on 3 July 2025, to file a better application explaining the delay. Ergo, the present application. 2. We deem it appropriate to reproduce the paragraphs of the application, which deal with the aspect of delay, in their entirety thus: “2. That the impugned judgement was pronounced on the last working day of the Ld Trial Court before the commencement of winter vacations. Thereafter on the resumption of Court, the certified copy of the trial court judgement, decree sheet was obtained by the trial court counsel on 23.01.2025. The file thereafter reached the office of the exec