Supreme Court of India
Ajit Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr
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What the Court ordered
In the result the appeal fails and is dismissed, but there would be no o.rder as to costs.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
The Consolidation Officer haU no authority to act as such before he was ap poin:ed and what he did, ·purporting to act as such officer, had no bind ing effect on the ownecs. Further, the State Government could not appoint him and clothe him with authority re:rospectively. But, as the appellant was guilty of Jaches and no manifest injustice was done to him~ the High Court was right in rejec·ing the contention. [147 - ] (Per Hidayatullah and Shela!, JJ.) : > the petition w.- filed more lhan three years after the compJet:on of the repartition of holding5. the. contention should not be
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 The State of Haryana v. Jai Singh and Others
- 2024 Karnail Singh v. State of Haryana & Ors.
- 2022 The State of Haryana through Secretary to Government of Haryana v. Jai Singh & Ors.
Of those, 3 referred to
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