JUDGMENT

The appellants have filed C.M.Application No.1 of 2020 under Section 5 of the Limitation Act to condone the delay of 2735 days in filing the land acquisition appeal. Reasons for the time taken have been stated in paragraph no.3 of the accompanying affidavit. The said paragraph is extracted below:-

“It is submitted that the judgment was passed on 31.10.2012. Due to an inadvertent omission, the Government Pleader applied for copy of the decree on 31.10.2012. The certified copy was ready on 08.02.2013. The copies were delivered on 14.02.2013. The District Collector addressed the files to the Advocate General on 22.10.2018 and the file received in the Advocate General’s Office on 22.10.2018. Thereafter, the file was submitted to the Government Pleader on 27.10.2018 for examining the scope for appeal. The Government Pleader perused the file and returned to concerned Section for availing certain details. After obtaining details from the concerned Department, the file was re- submitted to Government Pleader on 08.07.2019. Thereafter, the Government Pleader prepared the appeal after examining the scope on 09.07.2020 and submitted for approval of the Addl.Advocate General. Therea