Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 281 · Decided 8 April 2024
K.B. Lal (Krishna Bahadur Lal) v. Gyanendra Pratap & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 281 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 616
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4785/2024
- Decided
- 8 April 2024
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 227; Limitation Act Section 5
Headnote
Whether there was sufficient cause for delay of fourteen years in filing an application under Order IX, Rule 7 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Order IX Rule 7 - Application filed after delay of 14 years s. 5 - Condonation of delay is discretionary power of the court - Power to be exercised judiciously - Not in cases of gross negligence on part of litigant - 14 years delay cannot be condoned - 'Sufficient cause' not shown - Gross negligence on
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