STATE OF U.P. Vs. AMAR NATH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) There is a delay of 481 days in filing this Special Leave Petition and by means of present application petitioner seeks condonation thereof.

(2.) In the application the petitioner has attributed the delay to the moving of file from one Department/ Officer to the other. We hardly find this to be a sufficient explanation for condoning such an abnormal delay. This Court in the case of Postmaster General and Ors. vs. Living Media India Ltd., 2012 3 SCC 563has deprecated such practices on the part of the Government Authorities/ Departments in the following words:-

(3.) We further find that in identical circumstances in similar type of case which also arose against the award of the Labour Court, upheld by the High Court this court had refused to condone the delay and dismissed the Special Leave Petition on that ground. That was CC No. 5368/2013 titled State of U.P. & Ors. vs. Hanuman which was dismissed on 11.3.2013. We had summoned the file of that case and find both the cases are almost similar. Therefore, there is no reason to take a different view. We thus, dismiss this SLP on the ground of delay.