RAVI RANJAN, SUJIT NARAYAN PRASAD
State of Jharkhand – Appellant
Versus
Sher Ali Ansari S/o Late Gani Ansari – Respondent
ORDER :
1. Both the appeals have been tagged together in pursuance of order dated 25.11.2021 and as such, are being heard together.
I.A. No. 8049 of 2019 in L.P.A. No. 542 of 2019
I.A. No. 8356 of 2019 in L.P.A. No. 566 of 2019
2. Both the appeals are barred by limitation, as such, separate applications have been filed under Section 5 of the Limitation Act to condone the delay of 269 days in filing L.P.A. No. 542 of 2019 and 278 days in filing L.P.A. No. 566 of 2019 taking similar grounds as such, both the applications are being heard together and are being dealt with by this common order.
3. It has been stated in the interlocutory applications that due to complete inadvertence and oversight as also due to Durga Puja, Deepawali and Chhath Festival it slipped out from the mind of appellants and its office staff to enquire from their Government Counsel with regard to present position of writ petitions.
It has been further stated that after passing of order dated 25.10.2018 (impugned), no communication was made to the office of the appellants by their counsel and as such, they were completely ignorant about the order dated 25.10.2018 passed by this Court in writ petitions.
The further ground
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