ORDER :

CM No. 285/2023

1. Applicants/appellants have preferred instant application in terms of Section 5 of the Limitation Act r/w Rule 44 of the J&K High Court Rules seeking condonation of 275 days delay in filing the LPA (Letters Patent Appeal) against the judgment/order dated 11.02.2022 rendered by the learned Single Judge of this court in OWP No. 644/2019 titled Kuldeep Raj and Others vs. State of J&K and Others, whereby, the appellants-respondents therein were directed to process and make the payment of compensation to the respondents herein in accordance with the law for their respective portion of land taken over from them while treating the same to have been acquired pursuant to Notification No. 08 of 2018 dated 23.01.2018 issued under Section 4(1) of the J&K Land Acquisition Act 1990 (Svt) r/w Notice No. DCK/ADCK/LA/2017-18/211-16 dated 23.01.2018 issued under Sections 9 & 9-A of the Act of 1990.

2. It is averred, that the judgment was announced on 11.02.2022, on receipt of copy of the judgment from the Hon’ble High Court matter was referred to the Department of Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of UT of J&K alongwith the record of the case for it’s examination and opini