Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 198 · Decided 7 October 1974
P.S. Sadasivaswamy v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 198 · [1975] 2 S.C.R. 356
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1131/1974
- Decided
- 7 October 1974
- Bench
- KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 226-Laches and stale claims as grounds for refusal to exercise powers unier. A person aggrieved by an order promoting a junior over his head should ap­ proach the court within six months, or a.t the most, within a year after such promo­ tion, though there it would be n sound ~nd wise exercise of discretion for the courts to refuse to exercise their extra-ordinary powers under the article in the case of persons who do not approach expeditiously for relief and who stand by and allow things to happen and then approach the court to put forward stale
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