Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 286 · Decided 8 April 2024
Pathapati Subba Reddy (Died) BY L.RS. & ORS. v. The Special Deputy Collector (La)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 286 · [2024] 4 S.C.R. 241
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 31248/2018
- Decided
- 8 April 2024
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI, PANKAJ MITHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 5, 3; Land Acquisition Act
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in refusing to condone the delay of 5659 days in filing the proposed appeal against the judgment of the reference court under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, by some of the Claimant who died pending the reference and who were not impleaded in the reference proceeding. Limitation - Object of the law of limitation - Explained Held: The law of limitation is based on public policy and is enshrined in the legal maxim "interest
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