Litigant cannot be shown the door for NCLAT portal failure: Supreme Court restores appeal filed one day late
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The Supreme Court recently held that a litigant cannot be denied relief merely on account of a delay in filing an appeal when the delay is caused entirely by a fault on a tribunal or court's e-filing portal [Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II v. Ms Mamta Binani and Others].A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu made the observation in a case where an appeal in an insolvency resolution case was filed with a delay of one day because earlier attempts to e-file the appeal failed due