KIRAN DEVI vs UNION OF INDIA

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on : 06.05.2026 Pronounced on : 13.05.2026 Uploaded on : 13.05.2026 FAO 80/2024 KIRAN DEVI .....Appellant Through: Mr. Rajan Sood, Advocate versus UNION OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Ms. Devvrat Yadav, SPC for UOI with Mr. Kartik Sharma, GP CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ KUMAR OHRI JUDGMENT CM APPL. 14486/2024 (seeking condonation of delay of 1540 days in filing the appeal) 1. By way of the present application, the applicant/ appellant seeks condonation of delay of 1540 days in filing the appeal. 2. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the appellant, a resident of Dinagarhi, Ghaziabad is a poor and illiterate person of 70 years of age and belongs to an economically weaker section and due to paucity of funds, was unable to get in contact with a counsel and obtain timely legal advice. It is further submitted that the deceased was the sole earning member of the family. 3. Learned counsel for the respondent, on the other hand, opposes the present application. 4. It is noteworthy that in “Mohsina vs. Union of India”1, a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court condoned a delay of 804 days in filing the appeal, taking into accou