Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1104 · Decided 2 September 2009
Shri Santoshkumar Shivgonda Patil & ORS. v. Shri Balasaheb Tukaram Shevale & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1104 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 1173
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6017/2009
- Decided
- 2 September 2009
- Bench
- TARUN CHATTERJEE, RAJENDRA MAL LODHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Revenue Code Section 257
Headnote
+ Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 - s.257 - Power "ti of revision under -Whether can be exercised at anytime, although no time has been prescribed for exercise of such c power - Held: If a statute does not prescribe the time limit for -< exercise it does not mean that such power ~ can be exercised anytime - Reasonable period, within which power of revision may be exercised, would be 3 years under -* s.257 subject to exceptional circumstances - On facts, D exercise of revisional power after a lapse of 17 years was not within reasonable time
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