Union Of India vs Harnam Singh on 9 February, 1993
The learned Chief Justice speaking for the Court has come to hold that as there was discrimination in view of the law laid down in the case of Harnam Singh (supra) the order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal was susceptible and required to be interfered with. In my considered opinion the factual matrix of the aforesaid case is quite different from the present one. In the case at hand, the Board has its own guidelines and the petitioner has approached the Board after three and a half decades. The enormous delay clearly establishes that the fault on the part of the petitioner is colossus. It is well settled in law that a litigant who is not vigilant, is not entitled to any relief.