Uttarakhand High Court
Krishna Kumar Kalra vs Insurance Ombudsman (Western U.P. And on 1 April, 2026
Author: Pankaj Purohit
Bench: Pankaj Purohit
2018:UHC:4344
Office Notes, reports,
orders or proceedings or
SL.
Date directions and COURT'S OR JUDGES'S ORDERS
No
Registrar's order with
Signatures
WPMS No.982 of 2017
Krishna Kumar Kalra
--Petitioner
Versus
Insurance Ombudsman (Western U.P. and
Uttarakhand) Noida and Ors.
--Respondents
Hon'ble Pankaj Purohit, J.
Mr. Atul Kumar Bansal, learned counsel for proposed petitioners/ applicants, appeared through V.C.
2. Mr. Siddhartha Bisht, learned counsel for respondents.
3. Today, the matter is listed on restoration application (MCC/4184/2025) and delay in filing the restoration application (IA/4185/2024) and other applications, filed by proposed petitioners/ applicants.
4. There is a delay of 2086 days in filing the present restoration application, by which the proposed petitioners/applicants want to restore the writ petition which was dismissed by the Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 31.07.2017.
5. Learned counsel for respondents has filed objection to restoration application as well as to delay condonation application, which is taken on record. Misc. Application (IA/4188/2025) made therefor, stands disposed of.
6. Learned counsel for respondents submits that it is a settled proposition of 2018:UHC:4344 law that "Law helps the vigilant and not those who sleep over their rights". Mere plea of illness or ignorance of proceedings without cogent material or substantiating evidence cannot constitute sufficient cause to condone such an extraordinary delay.
7. He further submits that the petitioner has failed to provide any day-to-day explanation of inordinate delay caused, as mandated under settled judicial principles as per Hon'ble Supreme Court mandate, thus, the delay condonation application is liable to be dismissed.
8. Accordingly, the delay condonation application (IA/4185/2025) is rejected.
9. Since, delay condonation application is rejected, consequently, the restoration application (MCC/4184/2025), substitution application (MCC/4186/2025) and delay in filing the substitution application (IA/ 4187/2025) stand rejected.
(Pankaj Purohit, J.) 01.04.2026 PN