Amol Rattan Singh, J.

CM No.247-CII of 2006

By this application condonation of a delay of 678 days in filing the accompanying appeal is sought by the appellants who were claimants before the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Rohtak.

It is stated in the application that due to the shock of the death of their father in the accident out of which the claim petition arose, it took a long time for them to recover, thereby causing the delay.

Though such an inordinate delay of almost 1 year and 11 months is difficult to understand even for the aforesaid reason, however, since the appeal has been pending for the year 2006 in this Court and the records of the case were burnt in the fire accident that took place in January 2011 in the record-room of this Court, and even the orders passed by this Court between the time of filing of the appeal and the date of the fire are missing, the delay is condoned.

However, if the accompanying appeal is to be allowed by enhancement of the compensation awarded by the Tribunal, then interest in any such enhancement of compensation thereupon, w