ORDER :

1. The present SLPs have been filed after a delay of 1954 days in respect of impugned order dated 12.03.2015 of the learned Single Judge and delay of 545 qua the order in Writ Appeal. We may notice that the Writ Appeal itself was preferred after a delay of 783 days and was found not to have been properly explained. We may add that the present Special Leave Petition is filed after contempt proceedings were initiated on 13.05.2019, on dismissal of the Writ Appeal. Now, it is our chance to scrutinize a little more closely the aforesaid conduct of the State Government.

2. The application for condonation of delay explains the reasons for delay in para 2 which reads as under:

“2. There is a delay in the Special Leave Petitions filed against the Judgment and Order dated 12.03.2015 in W.P.(C) No.7021 of 2004 passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Orissa, Cuttack. Thereafter the Petitioners filed Review Petition before the Hon’ble High Court which were dismissed by the Order dated 27.04.2017. Thereafter the Petitioners filed Writ Appeal before the Hon’ble High Court which also dismissed by Order dated 19.04.2019. Therefore, there is a delay in the present Special Leave Petitions filed aga