NHAI Vs. Munish and Ors. OMP(M) No. 298 of 2024 06.08.2025 Present: Ms. Shreya Chauhan, Advocate, for the applicant. Mr. Malay Kaushal, Advocate, for the respondents. Applicant/appellant seeks condonation of 145 days’ delay in instituting the main appeal. 2. The applicant has pleaded that the impugned judgment was pronounced by the learned District Judge on 15.12.2023. Its certified copy was applied on 16.01.2024. The same was completed on 15.02.2024. However, disposal of the case on 15.12.2023 was not within the knowledge of the applicant as the same was never intimated to it by its counsel. 3. The application is with the further averments that the applicant became aware about the disposal of the main case on 15.12.2023, when on account of closing of the financial year, the empanelled counsel for the applicant throughout the State of H.P. were directed to furnish the information of the pendency or otherwise of the cases of the appellant. That it is only thereafter the applicant came to know about the fact that the instant case had been disposed of on 15.12.2023. However, this fact was not brought to the notice of the applicant by its counsel. 4. The applicant further submits that due to such inefficient and lackadaisical attitude of the said law firm/counsel, M/s M.V. Kini & Co., 362 cases pending in District Mandi have been withdrawn and had been allotted to some other firm. 5. The reasons for delay in filing the appeal have been attributed upon having no information about disposal of the case from the counsel conducting the said case. The applicant has demonstrated its bona fide by pleading that it has already withdrawn its cases from the law firm conducting the aforesaid cases. 6. Even otherwise, there is no opposition to the prayer made in the application. For the cogent reasons given and established in the application, the delay in filing the main appeal is condoned. The application stands disposed of. Arb. Appeal No._________of 2025 7. Be registered. List for consideration after four weeks. OMP No._____ of 2025 [OMPST No.38236/24] Be registered. 8. Heard. Subject to deposit of entire awarded amount alongwith up to date interest in the Registry of this Court within four weeks, operation and execution of award dated 15.12.2023, passed by the learned District Judge Bilaspur, H.P. in Arbitration Case No.26 of 2019 (National Highways Authority of India Versus Munish and others), shall remain stayed. The application stands disposed of. Jyotsna Rewal Dua Judge August 6, 2025 (R.Atal)