S. PARVATHA RAO, J.

( 1 ) WE do not find any sufficient cause for condoning the delay of 197 days in filing this appeal. Both in the affidavit filed in support of this C. M. P. for condoning the delay as well as in the reply affidavit dated 24-7-1995 filed by the senior Law Officer of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, it is admitted that certified copies of the judgment and the award of the learned district Judge, Medak at Sangareddy dated 7-2-1994 in O. P. No. 642 of 1992 were received on 14-6-1994 and that the same were sent to the Law Department of the corporation on 26-7-1994 i. e. , nearly six weeks after they were received. It is stated that the file was marked to the standing counsel by the Law Department on 29-7-1994 and that the standing counsel returned the file along with the draft grounds only on 14-3-1995. There is nothing to substantiate this. No correspondence is referred to in the affidavits nor any copies of the same filed to establish when the papers were sent to the standing Counsel and when he returned it. No affidavit of the standing Counsel is filed explaining why the standing counsel delayed. What prevented the advocate from having the appe

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