Chander Shekhar Sharma, Member—This order will dispose of the application under Section 5 of Limitation Act filed for condonation of delay in filing the appeal.

2. The background under which this application was filed and the various reasons for condonation of delay in filing the present application are briefly summarized hereinafter.

3. In the present case consumer complaint No.18/2010 was decided by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Mandi camp at Sundernagar on 26.2.2011. As per averments made in the application it is stated that the certified copy in the present case was prepared on 1.3.2011 which was received by the local counsel on the same date and appeal was to be filed before 31.3.2011. Counsel for the applicant has sent the certified copy of the said Order to the Applicant to Chandigarh at their Sector 34A office. However, the office of the Applicant has shifted from Sector 34A to the new office in Sector 9C during that time, and the orders of this case which was received by the dispatch section got inside another unrelated legal file by mistake and the same went unnoticed by the legal section of the Applicant company as it was not received by the legal