THE STATE OF HARYANA v. RAMPAL PATWARI

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL No.14189/2024 [Arising out of SLP (C) No. 15121/2023]

1. Leave granted.

2. A Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and

Haryana at Chandigarh, by the impugned judgment and

order dated 28th March, 2023, declined to condone the delay

of more than 600 days in presentation of a Letters Patent

Appeal (LPA) No.882/2017 by the State of Haryana from the

judgment and order dated 24th July, 2015 of a learned Single

Judge of the Court in CWP No.23074/2010 (Rampal Patwari &

Ors. v. State of Haryana & Anr). The said order is challenged

in this appeal.

3. We find from the records that by the order of the

learned Single Judge dated 24th July, 2015, as aforesaid, not

only was the writ petition filed by Rampal Patwari and others

allowed but another writ petition filed by Parmanand and

others, being CWP No.15880/2013, also stood allowed.

4. The State of Haryana went up in appeal against the

order dated 24th July, 2015 passed on the writ petition of the

said Parmanand and others, which is LPA No.1865/2015.

Initially, notice was issued on 15th July, 2016 and operation of

the impugned order was stayed. Finally, by an order dated

18th February, 2020, delay was condoned and the appeal set

down for hearing on 23rd April, 2020. Howeve...