2020 (12) TMI 1411

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....E HRISHIKESH ROY For the Petitioner : Mr. Pratap Venugopal, AOR Ms. Surekha Raman, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abraham Roy, Adv. Mr. Vijay Valsan, Adv. For the Respondent : None ORDER UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following The special leave petition has been filed after a delay of 462 days. This is one more case which we have categorized as a "certificate cases" filed before this ....

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....were issued to the parties. On 07.08.2014 the petitioner was unrepresented by the counsel. Thus the matter was adjourned. Ultimately, the appeal was dismissed for non-prosecution on 03.09.2014. Despite this mishap, no application for restoration was filed till 05.01.2016 seeking condonation of delay in moving the restoration application. That application was dismissed by the impugned order dated 0....

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....ed that the parties cannot keep on relying on judicial pronouncements for a period of time when technology had not advanced and a greater leeway was given to the Government, (Collector, Land Acquisition, Anantnag & Anr. (supra). This situation no more prevail and this position had been elucidated by the judgment of this Court in Office of the Chief Post Master General & Ors. vs. Living Media India....

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....te Governments to approach this Court only to complete a mere formality. Learned counsel for the petitioner strenuously contends that there is valuable land involved. In our view, if it was so, then the concerned officers responsible for the manner in defending this petition must be made to pay for it. We are thus constrained to dismiss the petition as barred by time and impose cost of Rs.15,00....