1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE Civil Application No.63 of 2007 In Letters Patent Appeal Stamp No.3602 of 2007 Deputy Conservator of Forests, Pune Forest Division, Pune Applicant Vs. Shri shivaji Pandurang Divte Respondent Mr.N.P.Deshpande, AGP for applicant. CORAM: B.H.MARLAPALLE & D.B.BHOSALE,JJ. July 17, 2008 P.C. . Heard Mr.Deshpande, the learned AGP. This application filed by the forest Department of the State Government prays for condonation of delay caused in filing LPA under Stamp No.3602 of 2007. As per the office note the appeal is beyond time by 2 years and 164 days. . Complaint (ULP) No.71 of 1994 was allowed by the Industrial Court at Pune on 8/10/1996 and the State authorities were directed to give permanency to the complainants with effect from 1/11/1994, with all consequential benefits. This order came to be 2 challenged seven years later in Writ Petition No.4690 of 2004. The petition was rejected summarily on 9/8/2004. This Court noted that there was no explanation as to why the petition was filed seven years later and in the mean while five workmen were already absorbed out of the total of seven. . Even in this application, no explanation has been furnished as to why the department sought legal opinion after more than two years from 9/8/2004 when the petition was rejected by the learned single Judge, We, therefore, do not find any case made out to condone the delay caused even in filing this Letters Patent appeal. The petition was filed belatedly by seven years and this LPA has been filed belatedly by more than two years. . Hence the application is rejected. (D.B.BHOSALE,J.) (B.H.MARLAPALLE,J.)