made an enquiry in the year 2019 itself, but could not made any efforts to get the status of the appeal and other reasons assigned are that they are the illiterate, rustic villagers and not aware of the legal proceedings, same cannot be a reason to condone the delay. Here, as there is a delay of 794 days even excluding the period of Covid-19 and this appeal was dismissed in 2017 itself, the Covid-19 pandemic was commenced in the year 2020 and in the year 2019 according to them when they made an enquiry about the appeal there is no Covid-19 pandemic, even after that also they have not made any effort to verify the status of the appeal. Only in the year 2022 January, they obtained the copy of the judgment. The reasons assigned in the application and affidavit are not satisfactory. Each day delay has to be explained and apart from that the suit is filed for the relief of partition and half share was granted by the Trial Court and same is confirmed by the First Appellate Court. Hence, I do not find any reasons given by the appellants to condone the delay of 794 days. The judgment was passed in the year 2017 and almost after 5
