NHAI Vs. Ghantha Ram OMP(M) No.125 of 2023 07.04.2025 Present: Ms. Sneh Bhimta, Advocate, for the applicant/ appellant. Respondent ex-parte. OMP(M) No.125 of 2023 The sole respondent was proceeded ex-parte on 24.11.2023. Despite opportunities granted to him, application for setting aside ex-parte order has not been moved. Under these circumstances, this application for condonation of delay in filing the appeal has been taken up. 2. Learned counsel for the applicant/appellant has placed on record copies of orders passed in different OMP(M)s in different cases instituted by the applicant/ appellant involving the same judgment, wherein the delay in filing the appeal has been condoned. 3. In view of the orders already passed in the similar matters and also taking into consideration the averments made in the application, it would be in the interest of justice, in case the delay in filing the appeal is condoned and the appeal is decided on merits. Accordingly, the application is allowed. Delay in filing the appeal is condoned. The application to stand disposed of. Arb. Appeal No.84 of 2025 4. Be registered. List for consideration on 28.04.2025. OMP No.319 of 2025 5. Subject to deposit of entire awarded amount alongwith up to date interest in the Registry of this Court within a period of two weeks, operation and execution of impugned judgment dated 04.12.2021, passed by the learned District Judge Mandi, H.P. in Arbitration Case No.120 of 2018 (National Highways Authority of India Versus Ghantha Ram), shall remain stayed. Parties are, however, at liberty to seek modification/alteration of the order. The application stands disposed of. Jyotsna Rewal Dua April 07, 2025 Judge Mukesh