RFA No.4482 of 2011 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH RFA No.4482 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision:27.09.2011 The State of Haryana ....Appellant Versus Naresh Kumar and another ....Respondents RFA No.4483 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ...Appellants Versus Narender Kumar and others ....Respondents RFA No.4484 of 2011 (O&M) State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Tiani Ram and others ....Respondents RFA No.4485 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Smt. Giano Devi and others ....Respondents RFA No.4486 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Unitech Ltd and another ....Respondents RFA No.4872 of 2011 (O&M) State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Roshan Lal and others ....Respondents RFA No.4482 of 2011 (O&M) 2 RFA No.4873 of 2011 (O&M) State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Bane Singh and others ....Respondents RFA No.4874 of 2011 (O&M) State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Sunder Dass and others ....Respondents RFA No.4875 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Ruhi Construction Co.Ltd. & others ....Respondents RFA No.4876 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Giani Ram and another ....Respondents RFA No.4877 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Chhote Lal and another ....Respondents RFA No.4878 of 2011 (O&M) The State of Haryana and another ....Appellants Versus Unitech Ltd. Unitech House and others ....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR GARG 1. Whether reporters of local newspapers 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. D. Khanna, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. * * * RFA No.4482 of 2011 (O&M) 3 RAKESH KUMAR GARG, J (ORAL) This order shall dispose of 12 First Regular First Appeals filed on behalf of State of Haryana challenging the impugned award of the Reference Court on the ground that the market value determined for the acquired land is on the higher side. These appeals are time barred. Alongwith these appeals, applications for condonation of delay in filing as well as in re-filing in each appeal have been filed for condoning the delay ranging from 50 days to 275 days in re-filing as well as from 148 days to 405 days in filing these appeals. The explanation submitted by the appellant mentions about the delay was caused due to administrative exigencies i.e. preparing the cases, getting the Court fee released and typing etc. of the appeals and preparing the necessary affidavits of the officers. This Court had already held in many of the State appeals that the administrative exigencies could not be a ground to condone the delay in filing the appeals. Faced with this situation, on 26th August, 2011, learned counsel appearing on behalf of State had sought short adjournment to enable him to file better applications for condonation of delay and the case was adjourned for 16.09.2011. On 16.09.2011, again a request was made to comply with the order dated 26.08.2011 and last opportunity was granted to file better affidavit and the case was adjourned for today. Again no such better affidavit in support of applications for condonation of delay has been filed and further adjournment has been sought. No sufficient reason is coming forward to adjourn the case. This Court is of the view that the respondent-State is not pursuing its remedy RFA No.4482 of 2011 (O&M) 4 with due diligence and is proceeding in a casual manner. At the outset, keeping in view the conduct of the respondent- State, this Court does not find any justification to adjourn these appeals further. Consequently, the applications for condonation of delay in filing as well as in re-filing of the appeals are rejected. Since the applications for condonation of delay are rejected, these appeal are also dismissed being time barred. A photocopy of this order be placed on the files of other connected cases. September 27, 2011 (RAKESH KUMAR GARG) savita JUDGE