JUDGMENT :

Sanjeev Kumar, J.

CM No.5495/2019

1. This is an application by the National Insurance Company Limited [“the Insurance Company”] seeking condonation of delay of 61 days in preferring an appeal against the order of Jammu & Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Jammu dated 16.04.2019.

2. Despite notice, the respondent has chosen not to file any objections.

3. We have gone through the application for condonation of delay in which the Insurance Company has sought to explain the delay of 61 days on the ground that some time was taken to obtain sanction from the Competent Authority to file appeal and also that summer vacation in the High Court intervened in-between. It is submitted that after completing the requisite formalities and obtaining sanction from the Competent Authority, panel counsel was contacted and ultimately the appeal was filed.

4. Be that as it is, the explanation tendered by the appellant in the absence of any rebuttal thereto by the respondent, is required to be accepted. We are, thus, of the opinion that the appellant has shown sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within time. The application is, therefore, allowed and delay in filing the