( 1 ) --THIS is a land acquisition Regular First Appeal filed by the Union of India against the order of the District Judge. The Land Acquisition Collector had awarded Rs. 4. 00o. 00 per bigha. The District Judge raised it to Rs. 12. 000. 00 per bigha. the contention in the appeal is that the enhancement should not have been beyond Rs. 7,000. 00. The award was made by the Collector in this case on 13. 11. 1981. Another question raised in the appeal is whether the additional benefits under section 2- (l) (after the amendment) can be given in the award rendered pi ior to the amendment. On the second question large number of appeals were hied in the Supreme Court. They are already heard and the judgment is awaited.

( 2 ) THERE is a delay of eighty days in filing the appeal. The averments in the application for condonation of delay under Section 5 of the Limitation Act read with Section 151, Civil Procedure Code are ; (1) That the limitation for the above noted appeal expired on 8th July 1987, (2) that there is delay of eighty days in filing the appeal, (3) that the delay in filing the appeal has occasioned due to the fact that it took sometime for the concerned Departmen