A. M. BHATTACHARJEE, J.

( 1 ) THE appeal, in respect of which the present application for extension of time and condonation of delay has been filled under section 55 of the Limitation Act, 1963, has been preferred by the Appellant State and seek to assail the judgement of a learned single judges on a petition under Article 226 presented by the Respondents No. 1 to No. 6 against the appellant State, as the Respondent No. 1, then being represented by the Secretary, Judicial Department (who is now Respondent No. 7 before us) and also the Secretary, Department of Finance as the Respondent No. 2, who in this appeal is representing the appellant State now before us. The writ petitioner No. 1 in the Court below, no Respondent No. 1 before us is the West Bengal Judicial Service Association, an Association of the Judicial Officers in this State and the other co-petitioners, now Respondents No. 2 to No. 6 are officers of the State Higher Judicial Service and members of the above named Association while, as already noted, the Secretary, Judicial Department, who represented the State in the Court below, has now been arranged as Respondent No. 7. The fact that the appellant State, who as the R

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