NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong note of delay in filing appeals by the Centre and said its counselling through orders to the government departments to set their house in order appears to be "falling on deaf ears" despite fines being imposed in several such cases. Referring to the delay of 6616 days in filing an appeal from the date of original order passed by the Delhi High Court, the top court said, "The approach of the Union of India in the manner it has filed the present special leave petition exasperates us as all earlier counsel appears to have been thrown in the dustbin!".