Srikanta Garnaik v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Odisha High Court (Cuttack), W.P.(C) No.27201 of 2024, order dated 07.12.2024 by Justice B. P. Routray: writ petition on allotment of shop rooms by Angul Municipality dismissed for unexplained delay exceeding five years after rejection of petitioner's prayer by Municipality order dated 31.10.2019 (Annexure-7) issued pursuant to Court's earlier direction in W.P.(C) No.16996 of 2019 (grounds: amount not deposited; agreement not signed per committee decision).
What did the court decide?
This Court found that the petitioner approached it more than five years after the 2019 rejection without explaining the delay, which weighed against entertaining the petition. ¶¶19