IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH FAO No. 2150 of 2009 (O & M) Date of decision:- 29.07.2009. Kusum Lata and another ...Appellants Versus Pepsu Road Transport Corporation and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N.JINDAL Present:- Mr. Rahul Chhatwal, Advocate for the appellants. A.N.JINDAL J. This appeal for enhancement preferred by the appellants is against the Award dated 01.05.2007 passed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Chandigarh whereby a sum of Rs.5,83,500/- was awarded as compensation on account of death of Madan Lal Gulati, aged about 51 years. Multiplier of 10 was applied in this case. The appeal is accompanied by an application for condonation of 587 days. In this regard, it has been submitted that only Rs.1,00,000/- was released to the appellant No.1 Kusum Lata and Rs.50,000/- was released to Pankaj Gulati. It is submitted that the appellants could not file the appeal because they presumed that the appeal would be filed only after the entire amount is released to them. This plea set up by the appellants is shorn of any truth. They were duly represented by the counsel and had obtained the copy of the judgment. They had ample money in their hands for engaging the counsel to file the appeal. The people would not feel shy FAO No. 2150 of 2009 -2- of filing state litigation after years together. If such a long delay in filing the appeal is condoned then it would be send wrong signals to the society and it would amount to completely vanishing the law of limitation. No merits. Dismissed. July 29, 2009 (A.N.JINDAL) vj JUDGE