2022 (3) TMI 311

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....ing Counsel for R-2/DDA.  JUDGMENT Proceedings have been conducted through video conferencing. CM APPL. 3051/2022 (Exemption) & CM APPL. 3052/2022 (Exemption to file lengthy list of dates) Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Applications stand disposed of. LPA 48/2022 1. Being aggrieved and feeling dissatisfied with the judgment dated 07.12.2021, passed by the Learne....

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....tia Khan area as their shops were demolished during the same demolition drive. 4. Learned counsel for the Appellant submits that the writ petition was filed before the Learned Single Judge, seeking a limited relief of a direction to Respondent No.1 to consider the representation of the Appellant dated 11.10.2019 and take a decision thereon, within a time bound manner. Learned Single Judge has e....

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....e this Court as to why the Appellant waited for nearly 5 decades to approach the Court except for a bald assertion that his several representations were pending with the DDA and his matter for allotment of alternative shop/site was under consideration. The writ petition was thus, clearly barred by delay and laches. (ii) Insofar as the argument of the Appellant that he has been making seve....

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....pellant that his representations had been pending over the years with no response from the departments concerned. (iii) Even assuming for the sake of argument that the representation was wrongly rejected by Respondent No.1, cause of action, if any, had arisen in favour of the Appellant in the year 2010. Even thereafter, the Appellant waited for 11 years before filing the writ petition and....