2021 Supreme(SC) 673
N. V. RAMANA, L. NAGESWARA RAO, SURYA KANT
In Re: Cognizance for Extension of Limitation – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For UOI :K.K. Venugopal, AG B.V. Balaram Das, Advocates
For the applicant(s) :Shivaji M. Jadhav, Manoj K. Mishra, Dr. Joseph S. Aristotle, Ms. Diksha Rai, Nikhil Jain, Atulesh Kumar, Dr. Aman Hingorani, Ms. Anzu Varkey, Sachin Sharma, Aljo Joseph, Varinder Kumar Sharma, Abhinav Ramkrishna, Advocates
For the State of A.P. :S. Niranjan Reddy, Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Polanki Gowtham, Shaik Mohamad Haneef, T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Amitabh Sinha, K.V. Girish Chowdary, Advocates
For the Patna High Court :P.H. Parekh, Sameer Parekh, Kshatrashal Raj, Ms. Tanya Chaudhry, Ms. Pratyusha Priyadarshini, Ms. Nitika Pandey, Advocates
For the Registrar General, High Court of Meghalaya :Soumya Chakraborty, Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Ms. Shashi Pathak, Advocates
For the Election Commission of India :Vikas Singh, Amit Sharma, Dipesh Sinha, Ms. Pallavi Barua, Prateek Kumar, Ashok Nijhawan, Aman Bhalla, Ms. Anindita Mitra, Pawan Reley, Akshay Lodhi, Vinod Sharma, Joydip Roy, Sajal Awasthi, Binod Kumar Singh, Parijat Som, Advocates
For the High Court of Allahabad :Yashvardhan, Apoorv Shukla, Ms. Smita Kant, Ms. Ishita Farsaiya, Ms. Prabhleen Kaur, Ms. Kritika Nagpal, Ms. Bhavya Bhatia, Advocates
For the High Court of M.P. :Arjun Garg, Aakash Nandolia, Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Advocates
For the Gauhati High Court :P. I. Jose, Prashant K. Sharma, Jenis V. Francis, Advocates
For the State of Meghalaya :Avijit Mani Tripathi, T.K. Nayak, Sahil Tagotra, Advocates
For the Bombay & Gujarat High Court : A.P. Mayee, M/S. Vkc Law Offices, Mukesh K. Giri,
For the Calcutta High Court :Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Advocates
For the Arunachal Pradesh :Abhimanyu Tewari, Ms. Eliza Bar, Advocates
For the High Court of Chhattisgarh :Apoorv Kurup, Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Advocates
For the High Court of Delhi :Ms. Binu Tamta, Dhruv Tamta, Ms. Pratibha Jain, Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Divyakant Lahoti, Parikshit Ahuja, Ms. Praveena Bisht, Ms. Madhur Jhavar, Ms. Vindhya Mehra, Kartik Lahoti, Rahul Maheshwari, Ms. Shivangi Malhotra, Mrs. L. Bhaswati Singh, Advocates
For the High Court of Jharkhand :Tapesh Kumar Singh, Aditya Pratap Singh, Aditya Narayan Das, Ms. Uttara Babbar, Manan Bansal, Advocates
ORDER :
1. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in March, 2020, this Court took Suo Motu cognizance of the difficulties that might be faced by the litigants in filing petitions/ applications/suits/appeals/all other proceedings within the period of limitation prescribed under the general law of limitation or under any special laws (both Central and/or State). On 23.03.2020, this Court directed extension of the period of limitation in all proceedings before the Courts/Tribunals including this Court w.e.f. 15.03.2020 till further orders.
2. Considering the reduction in prevalence of COVID-19 virus and normalcy being restored, the following order was passed in the Suo Motu proceedings on 08.03.2021:
“(1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit, appeal, application or proceeding, the period from 15.03.2020 till 14.03.2021 shall stand excluded. Consequently, the balance period of limitation remaining as on 15.03.2020, if any, shall become available with effect from 15.03.2021.(2) In cases where the limitation would have expired during the period between 15.03.2020 till 14.03.2021, notwithstanding the actual balance period of limitation remaining, all persons shall have a limi
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