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NATIONAL LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY AND REFORMS RPERSENTED BY ITS SECRETARY A.C. PHILIP VS. UNION OF INDIA
2019 Latest Caselaw 999 SC

Citation : 2019 Latest Caselaw 999 SC
Judgement Date : Oct/2019

    
Headnote :

IMPORTANT
Second Judges case that established the Collegium System - Review Petition dismissed due to excessive delay.



Constitution of India, 1950 Article 137 Review - A delay of 9071 days in submitting the petition - Petitioners failed to provide a satisfactory explanation - No grounds for reviewing the judgment found upon examination of the related documents - Review petition dismissed.



[Paras 3 and 4]

 

Before :- Ranjan Gogoi, CJI, S.A. Bobde, N.V. Ramana, Arun Mishra, Rohinton Fali Nariman, R. Banumathi, Uday Umesh Lalit, A.M. Khanwilkar, Ashok Bhushan, JJ.

Review Petition (Civil) No. ... of 2019 (Diary No. 29668 of 2018) in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 1303 of 1987. D/d. 17.10.2019.

National Lawyers' Campaign For Judicial Transparency And Reforms Represented by Its Secretary A.C. Philip and Ors. - Petitioners

Versus

Union of India And Anr. - Respondents

For the Petitioner :- Petitioner-in-Person.

ORDER

Permission to file the review petition is granted.

2. Prayer for open Court hearing is rejected.

3. There is an inordinate delay of 9071 days in filing the instant petition, for which no satisfactory explanation has been offered by the petitioners.

4. Thus, though the present petition is liable to be dismissed on the ground of delay itself, yet we have carefully gone through the review petition and the papers connected therewith. We are satisfied that no case for review of the impugned judgment has been made out.

5. The review petition is accordingly dismissed, both on the ground of delay, as well as, on merits.

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