IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.641 of 2008 SANJAY KUMAR MISHRA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Appellant : Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Advocate For the Respondents : Mr. Alok Kumar, Junior Counsel to Government Advocate-I ----------- P R E S E N T Hon'ble the Chief Justice & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kishore K. Mandal ----------- Dated, the 20th August, 2008. We heard the counsel for the appellant. 2. The letters patent appeal suffers from delay of one year and 160 days. For condonation thereof an application (I.A. No. 5005 of 2008 has been made. The crux of the grounds set out for condonation of delay is that the appellant having been terminated from service on 6th June, 2000, has been living in penury and after disposal of writ petition suffered from various ailment and lost mental balance to take a conscious decision. 3. The aforesaid grounds appear to us to be make-believe as nothing has been produced in support thereof. There is no medical report showing the ailment/s that the appellant suffered after disposal of the writ petition. No details of his financial condition 2 has been given in the application. As the long delay of one year and 160 days remains unexplained, the application for condonation of delay (I.A. No. 5005 of 2008) is liable to be rejected and is rejected accordingly. 4. Moreover, on merits of the appeal also, we find no justifiable reason to interfere with the impugned order. The appellant has been given liberty to pursue the remedy of statutory appeal before the Divisional Commissioner, Muzaffarpur against the order of dismissal. In our view, statutory remedy of appeal is efficient. 5. L.P.A. is, accordingly, rejected as time barred as well as on merits. 6. At this stage, the counsel for the appellant prays, that the time for filing appeal granted by the Single Judge may be extended by one month. We are persuaded to extend the time as prayed for by the counsel for the appellant. We order accordingly. R. M. Lodha, CJ Kishore K. Mandal, J Pawan/-