ORDER

1. This Application has been filed praying for condonation of delay of 20 days in filing of the above Criminal Revision Application.

2. It is submitted that since the order impugned was required to be sent to the Legal Department and after exhausting the legal process, the Revision Application could be preferred and all these aspects have contributed to the above delay.

3. In the case of Collector, Land Acquisition, Anantnag and Another v. Mst. Katiji and Others reported in AIR 1987 SC 1353 it has been observed as under :-

“3. The legislature has conferred the power to condone delay by enacting Section 5 of the Indian Limitation Act of 1963 in order to enable the Courts to do substantial justice to parties by disposing of matters on 'merits'. The expression "sufficient cause" employed by the legislature is adequately elastic to enable the courts to apply the law in a meaning- ful manner which subserves the ends of justice--that being the life- purpose for the existence of the institution of Courts.

It is common knowledge that this Court has been making a justifiably liberal approach in matters instituted in this Court. But the message does not appear to have percolated down to all