STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. JAIMAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) There is a delay of 1467 days in filing this special leave petition. The explanation is far from satisfactory and is unacceptable.

(2.) The explanation for this long delay is that papers had been transferred from Bikaner to Ganganagar. The application for condonation of delay proceeds to aver:

(3.) It is admitted that in all other cases Special Leave Petitions were filed in time. This kind of general statements of misplacing papers have, of late, become a common feature in government appeals. government departments are comfortably, if not generously, staffed and the officers are paid sumptuously out of public funds. The least that is expected of them when they deal with matters involving substantial stakes for the government is to actwith utmost care, diligence and despatch. This kind of vague averments about misplacing of files and of procedural and administrative delays in the context of the fact that the period of limitation is quite known, becomes un-understandable.