1. C.K. Thakkar, J, in Karnataka Housing Board v. Mudlaiah, (2007) 7 SCC 681 speaking for the Supreme Court has held that “once a direction is issued by competent court, it has to be obeyed and implemented without reservation. If an order passed by the court of law is not complied with or ignored, there will be an end of rule of law”. The above-stated statement of law aptly and squarely applies to the facts of the present case.

2. Timely justice is the very corner stone of rule of law and it has been a subject of lingering concern for the citizenry, as well as the other counterparts being members of legislature, executive and judiciary. It is no more res integra that speedy justice is a constitutional mandate, which holds it as an essential attribute of the fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Timely justice is an integral part of access of justice, and backlog of cases by not deciding in time, amounts to denial and derailment of justice. Insult is added to the injury, when despite directions of the superior courts to decide the matter within the given time band, far from deciding the same, officers show their unawareness about s