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8. In view of the aforesaid pronouncement of law it becomes quite vivid that in the matter relating to condonation of delay as far as the State is concerned the facets like impersonal machinery, bureaulogy, file-pushing, passing-on-the-buck ethos and such other factors can not totally be ignored and some latitude has to be shown. The present factual matrix is to be appreciated on the touchstone of aforesaid enunciation of law. On a scrutiny of the application it is manifest that from the very beginning attitude of passing-on-the-buck has been taken recourse to. The learned public prosecutor who filed the revision before the Additional Sessions Judge, Panna, whatever might have been his reason he sought withdrawal of the same for filing it before this Court. As has been mentioned earlier there has been deliberation in the Department of Law and Legislative Affairs and the file was sent to the office of the Advocate General. As pleaded the file was lost during renovation of the building of the Advocate General's Office. The cumulative effect of all these is that there has been enormous delay. One can see that the file moved like a patient suffering from partial paralysis. Ordinarily this Court, if the matter would have been different, would have been at loath to condone the delay but what weighs with this Court is the nature of offence and languorous proclivity exhibited by the complainant, the Range Officer. The allegation is that the non-applicant has felled the trees from the forest land. It can not be lost sight of the fact that the forest is the most protected and preserved national property and none can afford to play with the said property. It has been said that he who cuts trees today lives on the borrowed time from the future generation. It has been so said because in absence of forest a time would come when the posterity of this nation would have to remain sans forest and there would be a cataclysm in the atmosphere where there would be lack of rain, uncontrolled pollution, degeneration of the growth of such trees which are much essential for the existence of human being on the surface of the earth. Hence, no individual can be allowed to brush it away and go unpunished. Not for nothing Thomas Edward, the eminent British poet expressed thus :--