Supreme Court of India

Sheo Raj Singh (deceased) through Lrs. & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [2023] 13 S.C.R. 743
Bench Bela M. Trivedi and Dipankar Datta JJ.
Decided 9 October 2023

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons and the special circumstances obtaining here that the impugned order reasonably condones the delay caused in presenting the appeal by the fi rst respondent before the High Court , the present appeal is, accordingly, dismissed.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: Whether the High Court was justifi ed in condoning the delay in presentation of the appeal; and whether the department had shown suffi cient cause for which the appeal could not be presented within the prescribed period of limitation. Delay/laches – Condonation of – Exercise of discretionary power – High Court condoned the delay of around 479 days in presentation of the appeal by the Department from the decision of the Reference Court whereby it had enhanced compensation payable to the landowners – Correctness of: Held: Substantive rights of private parties and the Stat

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 1 referred to

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