Sufficient cause not a license to file belated appeal and to get the delay condoned

We are aware that adopting a liberal view in condoning delay is one of the guiding principles in the realm of belated appeals, but liberal approach cannot be equated with a license to file appeals at will-disregarding the time limits fixed by the statutes. No doubt that assessees are entitled to wait until the last date of the limitation for filing of the appeal, but when they allow the limitation to expire and come forward with a explanation enumerating reasonable causes for not filing the appeal within the time prescribed under the statute, then the causes, so shown, must establish that beca...