Mr.S.Ramakrishnan vs The Chief Executive Officer on 25 September, 2020
However, this exception may not apply in those
cases where the judgment pronounced by the Court was
judgment in rem with intention to give benefit to all
similarly situated persons, whether they approached the
Court or not. With such a pronouncement the obligation is
cast upon the authorities to itself extend the benefit thereof to
all similarly situated person. Such a situation can occur when
the subject matter of the decision touches upon the policy
matters, like scheme of regularisation and the like. On the
other hand, if the judgment of the Court was in personam
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holding that benefit of the said judgment shall accrue to the
parties before the Court and such an intention is stated
expressly in the judgment or it can be impliedly found out
from the tenor and language of the judgment, those who
want to get the benefit of the said judgment extended to them
shall have to satisfy that their petition does not suffer from
either laches and delays or acquiescence."