Alok Kumar Panda v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
In this writ petition, the petitioner sought to quash a 1969 Revenue Department Declaration lacking public notification. The Court dismissed the petition on the grounds of extreme delay and laches, noting the petitioner approached over fifty years after the declaration and thirty years after a relevant Division Bench order.
What did the court decide?
No relief; writ petition dismissed due to delay and laches.