Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 245 · Decided 28 February 2022
Surjeet Singh Sahni v. State of U.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 245 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 728
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 3008/2022
- Decided
- 28 February 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Delay / Laches - Belated representation before appropriate authority - Delayed writ petition - Effect of - Held: Mere representation before the authority does not extend the period of limitation and the aggrieved person has to approach reasonable time - If it is found that a writ petitioner is guilty of delay and laches, the High Court should dismiss it at the threshold and ought not to dispose of the writ petition by relegating the writ petitioner to file a representation before the authority and / or directing the
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