JUDGMENT :

N.V.ANJARIA, J.

In The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bherulal [IA No.62372 of 2020 in Special Leave Petition (C) No.9217 of 2020] order came to be passed by the Honourable Supreme Court refusing to condone the delay of 663 days with the following prefacing observations.

“.... the Supreme Court of India cannot be a place for the Governments to walk in when they choose ignoring the period of limitation prescribed. We have raised the issue that if the Government machinery is so inefficient and incapable of filing appeals/petitions in time, the solution may lie in requesting the Legislature to expand the time period for filing limitation for Government authorities because of their gross incompetence. That is not so. Till the Statute subsists, the appeals/petitions have to be filed as per the Statues prescribed.” (Para 2)

1.1 We are at pains to state, as the five captioned Civil Applications preferred by the State seeking to condone the delay of 1569 days, comes up for consideration before us, that the message in observations of the Apex Court would apply.

2. These Civil Applications are filed seeking condonation of delay occasioned in preferring the respective First Appeals which a