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The Civil Revision Petition has been filed against the order passed in I.A.No.4 of 2023 in MCOP No.261 of 2020 dated 18.04.2024 by the learned District Judge, Krishnagiri, dismissing the application filed under Section 5 of Limitation Act to condone the delay of 634 days in filing the petition to set aside the exparte decree dated 20.04.2021 passed in MCOP.

2. The respondents, who are wife, children and parents of one Prabakaran, who died in a road accident on 01.10.2019 involving the bus belonging to the petitioner Transport Corporation, bearing Registration No.TN-29-N-2376, had filed MCOP No.261 of 2020, seeking compensation.

3. It is the case of the petitioner/Transport Corporation that the petitioner had received notice on 12.03.2020 and thereafter, on 12.11.2020, the standing counsel Mrs.N.Kalaiyarasi had appeared before the Tribunal and undertook to file vakalat for the petitioner/Transport Corporation. Thereafter, time was granted from 29.07.2020 to 04.01.2021 to file vakalat along with counter. However, since vakalat and counter were not filed, the petitioner/ Transport Corporation was set exparte on 04.01.2021 and thereafter, exparte order was passed by the Tribunal