JUDGMENT (ORAL)

CM APPL. 33496/2020 (seeking condonation of delay of 832 days in filing the present appeal)

1. By way of the present application, the appellant/applicant seeks condonation of delay of 832 days in filing the present appeal.

2. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that after the passing of the impugned judgment dated 24.05.2018, the appellant was unable to file the appeal within the prescribed time. The appellant, who is an illiterate woman, is a resident of Village Farmana Khas, Rohtak (Haryana), and was not aware of the technicalities of the limitation period to file an appeal, and once it came to her notice, there was a lockdown and she went to her native village.

3. It is further submitted that the appellant belongs to an economically weaker section and, due to paucity of funds, was unable to get in contact with a counsel and obtain timely legal advice, as she had been in a traumatized condition due to the sudden death of her only son and subsequent death of her husband.

4. It is noteworthy that in Mohsina vs. Union of India¹(2017) SCC OnLine Del 10003, a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court condoned a delay of 804 days in filing the appeal, taking into account th