2019 (5) TMI 1660

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....r-State of Bihar filed an appeal against the order of the learned Single Judge before the Division Bench after a delay of 367 days. The Division Bench dismissed the application for condonation of delay on the ground that there was no sufficient cause shown for condonation of delay. It is thereafter with a delay of 728 days that the special leave petition has been filed. The reason given for seekin....

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....y to the State Government according to its conduct. That such condonation of delay is no more admissible on the pretext of Government working lethargy is clear from the judgment of this court in The Chief Post Master General vs. Living Media India Ltd. [2012(3) SCC 563]. We strongly deprecate the casual manner in which the Division Bench was approached and also this Court has been approached....