Supreme Court of India

Lanka Venkateswarlu (d) by Lrs. v. State of A.P. & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 3 S.C.R. 217

Bench B. Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Singh Nijjar JJ.

Decided 24 February 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the judgment of E the High Court is unsustainable either in law or in equity.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908: c Or. 22,r.4 - Abatement of appeal -Inordinate delay in filing application for bringing legal heirs on record and for setting aside abatement - High Court passed a conditional order giving final opportunity to do the needful, failing which ·. the appeal was to stand dismissed-Order not complied 0 with-Subsequently, High Court allowed. all applications · condoning 3703 days delay in filing the application to bring the legal heirs on record and 883 days delay in filing petition to set aside the dismissal order-Held: Whilst considering applications for condonation

Authorities it was built on

1987 Collector, Land Acquisition, Anantnag & Anr. v. Mst. Katiji & Ors. cited by 24
2002 S. Amarjit Singh Kalra (dead) by Lrs. and Ors. v. Smt. Pramod Gupta (dead) by Lrs. and Ors. cited by 12
1998 N. Balakrishnan v. M. Krishnamurthy cited by 8
2003 Mithailal Dalsangar Singh and Ors. v. Annabai Devram Kini and Ors. cited by 7
1963 The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Mohammad Naim cited by 3
2010 Balwant Singh (dead) v. Jagdish Singh & Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2024 Union of India & Anr. v. Jahangir Byramji Jeejeebhoy (d) through His Lr relied on
2024 Pathapati Subba Reddy (died) by L.rs. & Ors. v. The Special Deputy Collector (la) referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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