ORDER :

SHIVAJI PANDEY, J.

1. Heard learned counsel appearing for the respective parties.

2. All these Letters Patent Appeals are arising from the common order passed in different writ petitions as well as review applications and in all the appeals limitation petitions have been filed for condonation of delay in filing the respective appeals. The Food Corporation of India (hereinafter mentioned as “the F.C.I.”) filed the appeals against the judgment and order passed in three writ petitions as well as against the orders passed in the three review applications. Similarly, the Union of India has also filed appeals against the order passed in the three writ petitions as well as against the order passed in three review applications. Altogether 12 appeals have been filed by the Food Corporation of India as well as the Union of India.

3. In all the cases, the matter relates to refund of amount of supply of levy sugar for the period 1995-96, which has been turned down by the Food Corporation of India with the simple excuse that they would be taken up after the disposal of the Special Leave Petition preferred by the F.C.I. against the judgment and order passed in L.P.A. No. 380 of 2002.

4. While considering the petitions for condonation of delay, we do not feel it appropriate to deliberate the merit of the cases, but only confining with the issue of condonation of delay in filing different appeals as six appeals are arising from the common order passed in the writ petitions, in which there is a long delay in filing the appeals and another set of six appeals are arising from the order passed in the review applications, their delay is quite different than to the appeals arising from the common order passed in the writ petitions. As the common order is under challenge in all the cases, we feel it necessary to deal with the facts of these cases separately for convenience of the parties as well as for the Court.

5. C.W.J.C. No.4438 of 2009 (M/S. Riga Sugar Company Limited vs. The Union of India and Ors.), C.W.J.C. No.4439 of 2009 (M/S. Vishnu Sugar Mills Limited vs. The Union of India and Ors.) and C.W.J.C. No. 13205 of 2010 (M/S. Sasa Musa Sugar Works Limited vs. Union of India and Ors.) were heard and disposed of by the common judgment and order dated 27.02.2017. In all the three cases, review applications were filed by the Food Corporation of India in the following manner:-

Civil Review No. 22 of 2018 was filed on 17.01.2018 in C.W.J.C. No.4438 of 2009, Civil Review No. 21 of 2018 was filed on 17.01.2018 in C.W.J.C. No. 4439 of 2010 and Civil Review No. 493 of 2017 was filed on 14.01.2017 in C.W.J.C. No. 13205 of 2010. All the Civil Review Applications were filed by the Food Corporation of India, making prayer to review the judgment and order dated 27.02.2017 passed in above three writ petitions and this Court vide judgment and order dated 26.04.2019 disposed of all the review applications and the judgment of the same was uploaded on the website on 20.05.2019.

6. L.P.A. No.1001 of 2019 is arising from the judgment and order dated 27.02.2017 passed in C.W.J.C. No.4438 of 2009, L.P.A. No. 999 of 2019 is arising from the judgment and order dated 27.02.2017 passed in C.W.J.C. No.13205 of 2010 and L.P.A. No. 1003 of 2019 is also arising from the judgment and order dated 27.02.2017 passed in C.W.J.C. No.4439 of 2009. All these L.P.As have been filed on 17.08.2019 by the Food Corporation of India.

7. Similarly, L.P.A. No. 1052 of 2019 is arising from the order dated 26.04.2019 passed in Civil Review no. 21 of 2018, L.P.A. No.1049 of 2019 is arising from the order dated 26.04.2019 passed in Civil Review No. 22 of 2018 and L.P.A. No. 1048 of 2019 is arising from the order dated 26.04.2019 passed in Civil Review no. 493 of 2017. All these L.P.As have been filed on 23.08.2019 by the Food Corporation of India against the order passed in civil review applications.

8. L.P.A. No. 1055 of 2019 is arising from the order dated 26.04.2019 passed in Civil Review No.