(1.) For the reasons given in the application, the same is allowed and the delay of 177 days in re-filing the appeal is condoned.
(2.) The applicant-appellant has filed CM-266-C-2024 seeking condonation of 1121 days' delay in filing the appeal. It has been averred in the application that the suit filed by the plaintiff-respondent was decreed by Courts below exparte and as such, the applicant-appellant had no knowledge of the said fact. It has further been averred that the applicant-appellant came to know about the decision of the appeal by the first Appellate Court, only when the summons in the execution proceedings were issued against her.
(3.) Learned counsel representing the applicant-appellant, while reiterating the averments made in the application seeking condonation of delay, argues that the delay in filing the appeal, is neither intentional nor willful and rather, the same is due to the circumstances explained above. It is further argued that it is settled law that matters should not be decided on technicalities and rather, the same should be decided on merits.