1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. CIVIL APPLICATION 8108/2005 IN FIRST APPEAL (ST) NO. 19824 OF 2005 (Goenka Veeners Pvt.Ltd. .v. Rajkumar Sukhdeo Mohod and another) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's Orders and Registrar's orders. Shri S.N. Dandekar, Advocate for the appellant. CORAM : C.L. PANGARKAR, J. 23RD JANUARY, 2008. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant/applicant. This is an application for condonation of delay of 160 days in filing the present appeal. The award was passed against the present appellant by the Commissioner under the Workmen's Compensation Act. The appellant was directed to pay 21 per cent interest. The award came to be passed on 08.04.2005. Certified copy was applied for on 27.04.2005 and it was delivered on 10.06.2005. It is the contention of the appellant that he was persuading the respondent No.2 – Insurance Company to prepare an appeal. It had even assured that it would prepare an appeal. On this assumption, the appellants submits that it could not, therefore, file an appeal in time. The appellant, therefore, submits that the delay in filing this appeal 2 may be condoned. The appellant obtained certified copy and it can certainly be said that the appellant intended to prefer an appeal. When in fact the appellant found that the respondent No.2 was not preparing the appeal within time, there was no difficulty for the appellant to prefer an appeal within time. The explanation offered by the appellant is very flimsy and in any case the delay in filing the appeal cannot be condoned. Civil Application stands rejected as such. JUDGE *rrg.