Respondents/complainants filed the complaint before the District Forum against the petitioners alleging medical negligence on their part.  District Forum allowed the complaint, aggrieved against which petitioners filed the appeal before the State Commission with a delay of 70 days.  Reasons given seeking condonation of delay read as under:

            “That the impugned order was passed by the Ld. District Forum on 24.09.2010 and the copy of the Order was issued on 12.10.2010 by the District Forum & the appeal was to be filed within one month of receipt of the

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said order.  However, the accompanying appeal could not be filed within the stipulated period as the counsel of the appellants was not well for about two weeks has he was suffering from viral fever and thus he was not able to prepare the appeal on time and the delay of ____ days occurred due to this reason.

  That the aforesaid delay in filing the appeal is neither intentional nor deliberate but because of the illness of the counsel in Delhi who prepared the accompany appeal.”

          State Commission has dismissed the application for condonation of delay, as a consequence thereof the appeal has been dismissed as barred by limitation.

          We agree with the view taken by the State Commission that the petitioner had failed to show sufficient cause for condoning the delay.  On the averments made in the application, no court could condone the delay.  Dismissed.