Supreme Court of India
Sheo Raj Singh (deceased) through Lrs. & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.
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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
Authorities it was built on
- 1987 Collector, Land Acquisition, Anantnag & Anr. v. Mst. Katiji & Ors.
- 2003 Manjunath Anandappa Urf. Shivappa Hanasi v. Tammanasa and Ors.
- 1988 G. Ramegowda, Major, Etc. v. Special Land Acquisition Officer, Bangalore.
- 1979 Gujarat Steel Tubes Ltd. v. Gujarat Steel Tubes Mazdoor Sabha
- 1996 The Special Tehsildar, Land Acquisition, Kerala v. K.V. Ayisumma
- 1996 State of Haryana v. Chandra Mani and Ors.
- 2019 The State of Manipur & Ors. v. Koting Lamkang
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Inder Singh v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2026 State of Odisha v. Managing Committee of Namatara Girls High School, Namatara
- 2024 Delhi Development Authority v. Tejpal & Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 1 referred to
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