FIRST APPEAL FROM ORDER DEFECTIVE No. 460 of 2016 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW FIRST APPEAL FROM ORDER DEFECTIVE No. - 460 of 2016 State Of U.P.Thru District Magistrate Lakhimpur Kheri And Anr. .....Appellant(s) Versus Kulwant Singh .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : C.S.C. Counsel for Respondent(s) : Court No. - 20 HON'BLE PRASHANT KUMAR, J. C.M. Delay Condonation Application No.54154 of 2016 1. This is an application for condonation of delay in filing the instant appeal. 2. This first appeal from order has been filed by the appellant-State against the judgment and order dated 12.08.1996 passed by the Additional District Judge-III, Lakhimpur Kheri in Misc. Case No.1 of 1996. 3. The office has reported delay of 19 years and 6 months and 7 days in filing the instant appeal. 4. The reasons given in the affidavit filed in support of delay condonation application for delay are as follows: "2- That the civil Revision No. 66 of 1997 was filed by the appellants before this Hon'ble Court challenging the impugned judgment and order dated 12.08.1996 passed by the Learned IIIrd Additional District Judge Lakhimpur Kheri. 3- That during the pendency of the aforesaid revision it was brought to the notice of the Hon'b