Supreme Court of India

State of Madhya Pradesh v. S.S. Akolkar

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Reported as [1996] 1 S.C.R. 989
Bench K. Ramaswamy and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.
Decided 25 January 1996

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was not right in refusing to set aside the abatement and to condone the delay in filing of the petition to bring the legal representatives on record. c The delay is condoned.

Judgment, page 3

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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