Mr. K. Ranga Rao, Member—By its order dated 10.1.1997 in C.D. No. 558/93, the Hyderabad District Forum directed the opposite parties i.e. officials of the Telecom Department “to remove me deficiency in their service in respect of Telephone No. 852535 of the complainant and for that purpose to reduce the call units of the impugned fortnight from 9230 call units to 1400 call units, to prepare the disputed bill dated 1.12.1992 afresh, to recover from the complainant the amount of such bill so prepared and to adjust the excess payment if any made by the complainant towards its future bills”.

2. Aggrieved by the said order, the Telecom Department officials preferred this appeal. As there is a delay of 189 days in preferring the appeal, this application is filed by the appellants requesting for condonation of the said delay. In support of the application an affidavit of the Divisional Engineer, Legal Cell-11 of the office of the General Manager, Hyderabad, Telecom District has been filed. It was stated in the affidavit among other things by the appellants that the District Forum pronounced the order on 10.1.1997, that the order copy was made ready on 10.1.1997 itself, but the Counsel