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A timely filed rectification application remains capable of decision on merits after the three-month disposal timeline expires. The requirement that the competent authority decide the application "as far as possible" within that period is directory: it requires an endeavour to comply but neither makes the authority functus officio nor removes its jurisdiction after three months. Rejection solely on the ground that the disposal period had expired was quashed, and the application was remitted for a merits-based decision within three months.
A timely filed rectification application remains capable of decision on merits after the three-month disposal timeline expires. The requirement that the competent authority decide the application "as far as possible" within that period is directory: it requires an endeavour to comply but neither makes the authority functus officio nor removes its jurisdiction after three months. Rejection solely on the ground that the disposal period had expired was quashed, and the application was remitted for a merits-based decision within three months.
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