This time it’s Andhra Pradesh! SC rebukes yet another state for inordinate delay in filing appeal

Supreme Court of India.

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31 Aug 2020, 4:09 am

The Supreme Court, in an order passed on August 28, expressed its displeasure at the tendency of filing Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) after inordinate delay.

Rebuking the Andhra Pradesh Government, a three-judge bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajay Rashtogi and Aniruddha Bose said that the "incorrigible inefficiency" in filing an appeal was apparent from page 78 where the present special leave petition had been filed after a delay of 455 days.

The bench added that these were matters that were brought before the Court only to obtain a certificate of dismissal to put a quietus to the matter.

"We strongly deprecate the same", the bench said. It also dismissed the appeal on the ground of delay.

Earlier a bench headed by Justice Kaul had reprimanded the state of West Bengal for an enormous delay of 1697 days in filing an appeal. It had said that the Government has no right to walk into this Court as and when they wanted even if other matters were pending.