JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

I.A. No.10216 of 2023:

1. This interlocutory application has been filed for condoning the delay of 1460 days, which has occurred in preferring this appeal.

2. No counter to the delay condonation application has been filed.

3. Heard the parties.

4. Learned counsel for the appellant/applicant has taken the ground for condonation of delay that after the judgment having been passed in W.P.(S) No. 2488 of 2016 vide order dated 25.07.2017, letters patent appeal being L.P.A. No. 465 of 2017 was filed after obtaining certified copy. The said L.P.A. was disposed of on 25.07.2018 as being not pressed at this stage in order to prefer review application before the learned Single Judge.

Thereafter, after obtaining the certified copies of the order dated 25.07.2018 in L.P.A. No. 465 of 2017, the appellant/writ petitioner preferred Civil Review No. 73 of 2018 which was dismissed vide order dated 12.05.2023 and thereafter, the instant appeal has been preferred in which the delay of 1460 days has been pointed out, as such, prayer has been made that the delay occurred in the filing the instant appeal may be condoned.

5. Having heard the learned counsel for the par