C.M.No.7523-CI of 2011 in R.F.A.No.3294 of 2011(O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.M.No.7523-CI of 2011 in R.F.A.No.3294 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision: July 8, 2011 State of Punjab through Executive Engineer .....Applicant-appellant v. Rattan Chand and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Ms.Kavita Arora, AAG, Punjab for the applicant-appellant. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) C.M.No.7523-CI of 2011 The present appeal has been filed against award dated 1.2.2010, passed by learned Additional District Judge, Ropar. There is an inordinate delay of 390 days in filing the present appeal. Perusal of application and the affidavit filed alongwith application shows the ground taken for condonation of delay is that award was announced on 1.2.2010 and, hence the appeal could be filed upto 2.5.2010. Further plea has been taken that however, the file was handed over to the deponent, i.e., Executive Engineer, Maili Division, by Land Acquisition Collector-cum-SDM, Kharar, on 10.1.2011 with the proposal to make payment and thereafter the case was processed. There is no explanation whatsoever as to where the file remained from 1.2.2010 to 10.1.2011. Copy was applied on 16.5.2011 and the same was prepared on the very next date, i.e., on 17.5.2011 and delivered on 18.5.2011. However, there is no explanation as to why copy C.M.No.7523-CI of 2011 in R.F.A.No.3294 of 2011(O&M) -2- was not applied for a period of about more than one year and three months after announcement of award. Hence, what to talk of sufficient ground, no ground whatsoever is made out for condonation of inordinate delay of 390 days in filing the present regular first appeal. The same is hereby dismissed. RFA No.3294 of 2011 ` The present appeal is dismissed as having not been filed within prescribed period of limitation. 8.7.2011 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge