IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No. 4610 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision : 29.08.2011 The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Municipal Corporation Gurgaon and another ....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR GARG 1. Whether reporters of local news papers may be allowed to see judgment ? 2. To be referred to reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? *** Present: Mr. Ashok Jindal, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. * * * RAKESH KUMAR GARG, J (ORAL) C.M.No.10461-62-CI of 2011 This is claimant's appeal challenging the impugned award on the ground that the compensation awarded by the reference Court is inadequate. This appeal has been filed 225 days beyond the period of limitation. There is also a delay of 560 days in re-filing this appeal. A perusal of the averments made in the application for condonation of delay of 225 days shows that the limitation for filing the appeal expires on 20.04.2009 whereas Legal Remembrancer vide his letter dated 24.03.2009 issued necessary direction for filing R.FA in the Hon'ble High Court and the same was received in the office on 15.05.2009. It may also be relevant to read the averment made in the application for condonation of delay of 560 days in re-filing the appeal which reads thus:- RFA No. 4610 of 2011(O&M) -2- “That delay in re-filing the appeal is not intentional, rather the same has occurred due to administrative exigencies for removing the objections raised by the Registry of Hon'ble High Court. The office of Advocate General, Haryana has to contact/seek information from the department concerned. In this way some delay occurs in re-filing the appeal which deserves to be condoned in the interest of justice.” It is well settled that administrative exigencies causing delay in filing as well as in re-filing the appeal cannot be a ground to condone such delay. Thus, I find no merit in these applications for condonation of delay in filing/re-filing this appeal and the same are rejected. RFA No. 1610 of 2011 Since the applications for condonation of delay have been rejected. The appeal is also ordered to be dismissed being time barred. 29.08.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) savita Judge