JUDGMENT :

Pankaj Bhandari, J.

1. Appellant has preferred this Special Appeal (Writ) aggrieved by Order dated 19.01.2024, whereby writ petition filed by the respondents was allowed and Orders dated 14.06.2022 and 13.04.2023 passed by National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi (for short the ‘NCDRC’) were quashed and set aside and the appeal before the NCDRC was restored to its original number subject to payment of Rs.10,000/-.

2. Brief facts of present appeal are that the respondent-JDA preferred an appeal before the NCDRC and on non-appearance of counsel for the JDA, the appeal was dismissed in default vide order dated 14.06.2022. Thereafter, application for recalling of the order dated 14.06.2022 was filed on behalf of respondent- JDA, which was dismissed by NCDRC on 13.04.2023. Against the said order, respondent- JDA preferred SLP before the Apex Court bearing Special Leave Petition (Civil) Diary NO(S).30332/2023. The said SLP was dismissed as withdrawn on 18.08.2023 and the Apex Court in light of the judgment of M/S Universal Sompo General Insurance Co. Ltd. Vs. Suresh Chand Jain & Anr., granted liberty to the petitioners to withdraw the SLP while reserving the rig