JUDGMENT :

A.P. Thaker, J.

1. This is an application preferred by the original petitioner-applicant State of Gujarat for condonation of delay of 3578 days in preferring application for bringing legal heirs of the deceased on record.

2. It is submitted by the learned advocate for the applicant that along with the above captioned Special Civil Application, many other Special Civil Applications of the same parties are pending. In present petition, the State is the petitioner and in other matters private parties are the petitioners. It is stated that so far as the petitions preferred by the private respondents are concerned, their legal heirs have already been brought on record. It is also contended that all the petitions were kept together and heard together and, therefore, practically since heirs of private petitioners are already brought on record in the respective petitions, the heirs of the respondents here may be technically brought on record.

2.1. It is also submitted that at the given point of time series of Civil Applications and restoration applications were filed and some were allowed and only formality now requires is to get the delay condoned to bring legal heirs on record. Wh