Kamlesh Babu & Ors vs Lajpat Rai Sharma & Ors on 16 April, 2008
5. The only reason given by the appellant in the application for
condonation of delay is that all decisions are taken after consultation
with all the members of the village Sabha and it needed money to file
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the appeal and in this process delay of 206 days had occurred. The
applicant has failed to show sufficient cause for the delay caused in
filing the appeal. Mere mentioning that the approval was to be
obtained from all the members that caused the delay, is not a
sufficient cause. The delay has not been properly explained and the
approach of the appellant seems to be a casual approach with the
assumption that the delay will be condoned automatically and the
condonation of delay is taken to be a matter of right by the appellant,
forgetting that the rigorous of the law of limitation are applicable to
all and things cannot be taken for granted. Hon'ble Supreme Court in
case "Kamlesh Babu and Ors. Vs Lajpat Rai Sharma and Others",
2008(3) the Punjab Law Reporter-455, while interpreting and
explaining the scope of Section 3(1) of the Limitation Act, observed
as follows:-