Supreme Court of India
Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Chennai v. M. Meiyappan and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that no relief should be given to petitioners who, without any reasonable explanation, approach this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution after inordinate delay.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Constitution of India, 1950. c Articles 32 and 226 - Writ petition challenging acquisition of land - Filed after 16 years of the award of compensation - HELD: The Courts are expected to be very cautious and circumspect about exercising their discretionary jurisdiction under Article 226 or Article 32 of the Constitution if there has 0 been inordina te and unexplained delay in questioning the validity of acquisition of land - In the mslant case, the writ petitioners did not furnish any explanation, and they had participated in the proceedings before Land Acquisition Collector - High Court
Authorities it was built on
- 1974 P.S. Sadasivaswamy v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- 2008 Tridip Kumar Dingal & Ors. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.
- 1994 P. Chinnanna and Ors. v. State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
- 1969 Rabindra Nath Bose & Ors v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2003 Dayal Singh and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2009 Yunus (baboobhai) A Hamid Padvekar v. State of Maharashtra through its Secretary and Ors.
- 2004 The Printers (mysore) Ltd. v. M.A. Rasheed and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2018 Indore Development Authority v. Shailendra (dead) through Lrs. & Ors.
- 2024 M/s. K.P. Mozika v. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. and Ors
- 2016 State of West Bengal and Others v. Calcutta Club Limited
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned
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