https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171806 Where an election petition had to be presented in open court within a prescribed limitation period, the prescribed mode excluded delivery to the Bench Clerk or Registrar. The text explains that if the court was effectively closed on the last day for filing, the law does not require an impossible act. Section 10 of the General Clauses Act therefore applies to computation of time for acts required to be done in court, and presentation on the next working day is treated as timely. On that reasoning, dismissal of the petition as time-barred was unsustainable, and the matter was to proceed on merits. en-us Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:31:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171806 Where an election petition had to be presented in open court within a prescribed limitation period, the prescribed mode excluded delivery to the Bench Clerk or Registrar. The text explains that if the court was effectively closed on the last day for filing, the law does not require an impossible act. Section 10 of the General Clauses Act therefore applies to computation of time for acts required to be done in court, and presentation on the next working day is treated as timely. On that reasoning, dismissal of the petition as time-barred was unsustainable, and the matter was to proceed on merits. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171806