IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Letters Patent Appeal No.1165 of 2010 Date of decision: 17.9.2010 State of Haryana and another …..Appellants versus Jaswant Singh and another ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Ms.Mamta Singhal Talwar, AAG Haryana for the appellant Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) CM No.3530 of 2010 This application has been moved with a prayer to condone delay of 313 days in filing the appeal. To condone delay, in this application, following reasons have been given:- “5. That the accompanying appeal is being filed after the expiry of appeal period due to the administrative reasons. The copy of the Hon’ble High Court dated 11.9.09 was received in the office of the applicant on 10.10.09 and the L.R. instructions for filing the L.P.A. were received in the office of the applicant on 6.11.09. The true copy of the judgment, written statement and other relevant documents were prepared by the office of the applicant, hence the delay in filing the L.P.A. is liable to be condoned.” We are of the opinion that explanation given is totally unsatisfactory. Nothing has been stated as to what was the cause for delay, Letters Patent Appeal No.1165 of 2010 whether delay was caused due to circumstances beyond control of the appellant, who dealt with the file, at what stage and what were the reasons in not clearing the file to present this appeal within limitation. Nothing has been stated in the application. No case is made out to condone the delay. Application is dismissed. Consequently, the appeal is also dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 17.09.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2