JUDGMENT :

M.S. Ramachandra Rao, C.J.

I.A. No.10928 of 2023 in/and L.P.A. No. 676 of 2023

This application is filed under Section 5 of the LIMITATION ACT , 1963 to condone the delay of 318 days in filing this Appeal challenging the judgment of the learned Single Judge dt. 15.12.2022 passed in W.P.(S) No. 7486 of 2013.

2. In the application filed seeking condonation of delay, it is stated that the said order was communicated on 24.02.2023 by the Registry of the Court and file was put up before the Secretary, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries Department on 24.02.2023. It is stated that thereafter a decision was taken to prefer appeal and the file was forwarded to the Advocate General, who handed it over to conducting lawyer to prepare memo of appeal and the appeal was ultimately filed on 30.11.2023.

3. It is stated that delay was due to procedural technicalities and was not deliberate.

4. Though the judgment of the learned Single Judge was pronounced on 15.12.2022, it appears that the application for certified copy of the same was filed on 03.11.2023, that it was issued on 24.11.2023 and the appeal was then filed on 30.11.2023.

5. No explanation is forthcoming from the applicants for the reaso