https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2020/10/20/sc-supreme-court-is-not-a-place-for-the-governments-to-walk-in-when-they-choose-ignoring-the-period-of-limitation-prescribed/
"All our counseling to Government and Government authorities have fallen on deaf ears"; SC on inordinate delay in filing appeals/petitions by Govt./State Authorities