Sri Shyamal Gupta, Member

Revision is preferred against the Order dated 18-09-2017 of the Ld. District Forum, Kolkata-II (Central), passed in CC/275/2017.

Short case of the Revisionist is that on 18-09-2017, due to heavy traffic congestion, its Ld. Advocate could not reach the Ld. District Forum in time resulting which the WV could not be filed on that day when the matter was taken up by the Ld. District Forum and therefore, the matter was fixed for ex parte hearing.  Accordingly, it prayed for setting aside the impugned order.

Having heard both sides and after going through the order sheets from the Confonet website as well as documents on record, it transpires that the notice was served upon the Revisionist on 04-08-2017.  However, till the date of impugned order, i.e., on 18-09-2017, the Revisionist did not file WV; thereby breached the statutory time limit of filing WV within 30 days of receipt of notice.  We, accordingly, find negligence on the part of the Revisionist.

In any case, in the interests of natural justice, we allow the Revision subject to payment of a cost of Rs. 1,000/- to the Respondent/Complainant by the Revisionist.  Parties to appear before the Ld. District Forum on 18-04-2019 for payment of cost.