JUDGMENT

Manojit Mandal, President.—This appeal was filed on 01/06/2022 challenging the impugned order No. 11 dated 31/01/2019 passed by the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Kolkata-I (North). Along with the appeal, an application for condonation of delay was filed, wherein it was prayed as under:—

“the appellants prays for condonation of delay in filing the instant appeal which is delayed about 1215 days.”

2. The condonation of delay was sought on the ground that the appellant No. 1 Somenath Banerjee is a cancer patient who suffers with the disease since 2018 and in the year 2019, the Learned Advocate intimated that complaint case was decided in the year 2019 but as none of the appellants approached him or contacted him, he could not intimate the fate of the complaint case. Thereafter, due to pandemic situation of Covid 19 commenced all over the world including India and due to lockdown declared by the Govt. of India, the movement of citizens of India became restricted.

3. To explain the delay, Mr Barun Prasad, Learned Advocate appearing for the appellant has submitted that the appellant No. 1 was a cancer patient who suffered with the disease since 2018. The appellant No. 1 w