P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, J.

( 1 ) NOTICING certain seemingly conflicting observations in the Division Bench decisions of this Court as regards the yardstick to be applied and approach to be adopted while dealing with the petition filed by the State for condonation of delay in preferring an appeal, a learned Single judge of this Court B. S. Raikote, J. has referred this C. M. P. to a Division Bench. The C. M. P. has been filed by the State of andhra Pradesh represented by the District collector, Mahabubnagar for condonation of delay of 3,654 days in filing the second appeal against the judgment of the first appellate Court rendered on 5-2-1985. This case furnishes a typical example of not merely inaction of bureaucratic machinery, but also apathy and casualness towards court litigation in which fairly valuable land is involved. The explanation for this inordinately long delay is sought to be given in an equally casual manner with vague averments, leaving many unexplained gaps. The long delay by itself may not be a ground to refuse the condonation of delay. But the reasons for the delay should be satisfactorily explained so as to make out a sufficient cause under sec. 5 of the Limitatio

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