L^ HIGH COURTOFCHHATTISGARHAT BiLASPUR Sinaieuench : Hon'bie Shri Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh. J. (Ciaimantj (Non-appiicants) Laxmi Narayan Sharma, S/o Late Kodeshwar Prasad Sharma, Aged about 48 years, R/o House No.11/2005, Shreenagar, Khamtarai Ward, In front of Gourav Chowk, Raipur, District Raipur (CG) At prssent R/o Office of the Deputy Director, Panchayat & Samaj Kalyan, Mahasamund, District Mahasamund (CG) Ishwar Lal Chandrakar, Age 35 years, S/o Krishna Kumar Chandrakar, R/o Viliage Pailoud, P.S. Mandirhasaud, District Raipur (CG) (Driver of Mini Bus No.C.G.- 04/E/0199) Haradhan Dey, S/o Late N. C. Dey, R/o Mana Camp, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.) (Owner of Mini Bus No.C.G.- 04/E/0199) The New India Insurance Company Limited, Division Office, At Madina Building, Jai! Road, Raipur, District Raipur (C.G.) (Insurance Com. of Mini Bus No.C.G.- 04./E/0199) temo.o.fMjsceilaneous Appeal under Section 1 73 of the Motor Vehicles Act. 2. 3. Present: Shri J. A. Lohani, counsei forthe appeiiant. ORAL ORDER (Psssed on this 22 day of July, 2008) Heard on I.A.No.1, which is an application for condonation of delay in fllingthis appeai. x (2) . This appeai by the c'aimants for enhancement of compensation is barred by limltation. The oniy ground urged by learned counsel for the. 'T...,.'^ -2.— appeltant in the application for condonation of de!ay in fi!ing this appeal is as under: "That the appeUant was having no knowledge about Law and its period of iimitation of filing appeai, therefore was unable to reach before this Hon'ble Court within the period of its limitation 90 days." (3) In my considered opinion, the ground mentioned above does not constitute a valid ground for condonation of deiay in filing this appeai. (4) Since no good ground is shown for condonation of delay in filing this appeal, the application I.A.No.1 is dismissed. As a consequence thereof, the appeal also stands dismissed as barred by limitation. SdT DUip Raosaheb Deshmukh Jiidge Tumans •\ \i