2022 (2) TMI 1358

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.....V. Vijayakumar, AOR ORDER 1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 09.11.2021 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras, Bench at Madurai in C.R.P. (MD) Nos. 1688 & 1689 of 2019, by which the High Court has set aside the order passed by the learned trial Court condoning the huge delay of 467 days in preferring the application for setting aside ....

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....pportunity of fair trial should be given to both the parties to put-forth their case on merits. The trial Court also observed that, on allowing the application for condonation of delay, no prejudice will be caused to the plaintiff and, therefore, the delay can be condoned by compensating the plaintiff by way of heavy costs. The said order has been set aside by the High Court by the impugned judgme....

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..... Land Acquisition Officer, reported in (2013) 10 SCC 765 is required to be referred to. In the said decision, it is observed and held that the law of limitation may harshly affect a particular party but it has to be applied with all its rigour when the statute so prescribes. The Court has no power to extend the period of limitation on equitable grounds. The statutory provision may cause hardship ....