FIRST APPEAL FROM ORDER DEFECTIVE No. 870 of 2018 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW FIRST APPEAL FROM ORDER DEFECTIVE No. - 870 of 2018 Union Of India Throu.General Manager North Eastern Railway .....Appellant(s) Versus Ishwar Chand Gupt And Ors. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Neerav Chitravanshi, Chandra Shekhar Sinha, Rakesh Kumar Maurya Counsel for Respondent(s) : Amrita Singh, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Surendra Singh Court No. - 20 HON'BLE PRASHANT KUMAR, J. C.M. Delay Condonation Application No. 145216 of 2018 1. Heard Shri Rakesh Kumar Maurya, learned counsel for the appellant as well as Mr. Surendra Singh, learned counsel for the respondents and perused the records. 2. This is an application for condonation of delay in filing the instant appeal. 3. The instant belated first appeal from order under section 23 of the Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987, has been preferred by the appellant against the judgment and order dated 18.08.2017 passed by the Railway Claims Tribunal, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow in Case No. O.A.0600555 (Ishwar Chand Gupt and others versus Union of India). 4. The office has reported a delay of 1 year 14 days in filing the instant appeal. 5. The reasons given by the appellant in the affida