Bijender Singh vs. State Of Haryana

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) Diary No(s). 5129/2021

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 21-08-2017 in RFA No. 3556/2017 passed by the High Court Of Punjab & Haryana At Chandigarh)

BIJENDER SINGH & ORS. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

STATE OF HARYANA & ORS. Respondent(s)

(IA No.76207/2021-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING and IA No.76209/2021-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT)

Date : 19-08-2021 This petition was called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KISHAN KAUL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY

For Petitioner(s) Mr. S.K. Garg, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR

For Respondent(s)

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

The petitioners did not challenge the award of the Land Acquisition Collector by filing the Regular Second Appeal and subsequently with an enormous delay of 1591 days filed the appeal because there were other co-sharers who were benefitting. The High Court was kind enough to condone the delay but subject to the condition that the petitioners would not be entitled to interest on the enhanced compensation for the period of delay. The

present SLP has been filed after a delay of 827 days against that order saying that the petitioners should also be entitled to the interest on the compensation for the period of delay.

A perusal of the application for condonation of delay shows that all that has been stated is that 'some' delay took place. We strongly deprecate the filing of the present SLP. It is a moot point whether at all after such a delay the petitioners ought to have been granted benefit by the High Court. Despite the indulgence shown, the petitioners have not been satisfied with it and in a casual manner seeks to walk into this Court to claim interest on the compensation which has been granted on an appeal after a delay of 1591 days.

We thus consider it appropriate to burden the petitioners with costs for wastage of judicial time.

We dismiss the SLP with costs of Rs. 20,000/ to be deposited with the Supreme Court Group 'C' (Non-Clerical) Employees Welfare Association within a period of four weeks from today.

Pending application stands disposed of.

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