JUDGMENT :

Prayer: W.A. No. 48231 of 2022: Appeal under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 14.10.2019 passed in W.P. No. 17279 of 2018 by the learned Single Judge.

C.M.P. No. 13722 of 2022: Petition filed under Section 5 of the Limitation Act to condone the delay of 890 days in filing the appeal against the order dated 14.10.2019 passed in W.P. No. 17279 of 2018.

1. Heard on the application for condonation of the delay of 890 days in filing the appeal.

2. An affidavit to support the application has been filed and explanation for the delay has been given only in paragraph 7 and is quoted hereunder:

“7. The order was passed by the single judge on 14.10.2019 and we applied for the certified copy but due to intervention of COVID during the month of March 2020, we were prevented from meeting the counsel about next course of action, the Petitioner had personal losses in their family during COVID second wave too. Even after the pandemic restrictions were lifted, the petitioner was not recouped the original strength to move around and travel to Chennai for instructing my counsel to prefer appeal against the impugned order.”

3. The other paragraphs of the affidavit refer to t