Published on: December 09, 2023 at 15:22 IST
Court: High Court of Delhi
Citation: Ravinder V. Union of India (2019)
Honorable High Court of Delhi has held that long period of inordinate delay cannot be accepted to challenge the judgment of the Hon’ble Court once the Petitioner has accepted the fruits of the judgment. It is held that once a litigant has not challenged the judgment within limitation period then deemed has accepted.
We are of the view that the petitioners cannot after such a long period seek to rake up the issue of acquisition merely on the basis of some recent pronouncements by the Hon’ble Supreme Court even when they accepted the compensation qua acquisition of the land by neither challenging the acquisition proceedings nor the award but on the other hand were only interested in enhancement of compensation for which they have sought a reference. They have also recovered the compensation and for them now to say that they are willing to return that compensation after number of years and should be permitted to assail the acquisition proceedings would not, in our view, be the appropriate direction to be passed.
Drafted By Abhijit Mishra