Ganesh Prasad Sah Kesari & Anr vs Lakshmi Narayan Gupta on 18 April, 1985
In Ganesh Prashad Sah Kesari versus Lakshmi Narayan
Gupta (1985) 3 SCC 53, the Supreme Court observed that
when a time is fixed or granted by a court for doing any
prescribed act or thing, the court in its discretion can enlarge
the time fixed though the period originally fixed/granted had
expired. Time once fixed, does not whittle down the discretion
of the court to further extend the time. In the said case the
question was whether a court can extend the time to enable a
tenant to deposit rent.