AFFIDAVIT FOR THE CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING THE APPEAL BEFORE THE INCOME-TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL
 
Before the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal at .................
In the matter of A B C Ltd.
Assessment Year ....................
Affidavit of A aged about……………………………….years, son of Shri……………….Chief Accountant and Company Secretary of A B C Ltd
 
I, A, aged about …………………….years, son of Shri………………….resident of ……………….do solemnly affirm and state as under:
 
1.	That I am the Chief Accountant and Company Secretary of A B C Ltd., the assessee, and as such well conversant with the facts deposed to below.
2.	That the appeal filed by the assessee-company before the Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) was disposed of by order dated ……………………passed by the Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) . 
3.	That the time for filing of the appeal before this tribunal was to expire on 	.........	
4.	That Chief Legal Adviser of the assessee-company Shri ………………….was coming to the office of the  tribunal to file the Memo of appeal duly signed by the Managing Director of the Company on …………by his Car No. ...............................	and the said car met with an accident at 	with another Car bearing No …	and Shri ………………………Chief Legal Adviser, became unconscious on the spot, due to head injuries received by him 	in the said accident and he was immediately admitted in Nursing Home by the police.
5.	That I came to know about the accident in the evening of………………………and I went to visit him in the Nursing Home. When I enquired from him about the filing of appeal before the tribunal, he intimated that he met with the accident before reaching the tribunal's office, therefore, appeal could not be filed.
6	That I got prepared another Memo of Appeal from the company Solicitors on the 	next day i.e. on…………as all the papers in the car including the appeal papers, have been seized by the police.
	7.	That the Memo of Appeal has been filed on ……………….in the Office of the Tribunal.
 
1, A, the above named deponent, do hereby verify that the contents of paras 1 to 7 are true to my personal knowledge; and nothing material has been concealed and no part of it is false. So help me God.
 
	Signed and verified at ……………………….on ………………day of …………………….
	Date………………									Deponent