Supreme Court of India
Mohd. Ayub v. State of U.P. and Others
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What the Court ordered
Held as under:- ·" ... Where, therefore, a period is prescribed for the " performance of an act in a Court or office, and that period· expires on a holiday, then according to the section the Act should be considered to have been done within that period, if it is done on tile next day on which the Court or office is open.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
General Clauses Act, 1897 - s. 10 - Computation of time - Gazetted holiday on the last date of submitting application "' for the post alongwith medical certificate - Submission of application on the last date, however medical certificate on c the next day - Non-consideration of application - Correctness of - Held: Party prevent~d from dojng an act by some circumstances beyond his control can do so at the first subsequent opportunity - Object is to enable a person to do what he could have done on a holiday on the next working day - Candidate could not obtain medical certificate since last ,)
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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