2024:PHHC:007884

106 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

RSA-454-2018 (O&M)

Date of decision: 20.01.2024

Smt. Saroj (since deceased) through her Legal Heir and others

....Appellants

Versus

State of Haryana and another

..Respondents

CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL

Present:-

Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Advocate for the appellants

Ms. Vibha Tewari, AAG, Haryana and

Mr. J.S.Pannu, AAG, Haryana

ANIL KSHETARPAL, J (Oral)

1.

This Regular Second Appeal has been filed alongwith an

application for condonation of delay of 1726 days in filing the appeal.

In the application, the appellants have asserted that they were not aware

of the remedy of filing the appeal and they are poor persons, having no

means to engage a counsel for filing the appeal. It is evident that the

appellants are successors in interest of the big landowners. Their

predecessor-in-interest was found to be holding the agricultural land

beyond the ceiling limit as prescribed under the Haryana Ceiling of

Land Holdings Act, 1972 (hereinafter referred to as ‘1972 Act’).

Moreover, they were represented by a counsel before the trial court as

well as the First Appellate Court. Hence, the app