Santilata Nayak v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Santilata Nayak v. State of Odisha; lease patta; Tahasildar Baramba; mouza Karadibandha; Plot No.4260; Khata No. 842; Ac.0.28 dec.; lease application dated 14.02.1994; Annexure-1; Lease Misc. Case registration; endorsement of receipt; inordinate delay; writ petition dismissed; W.P.(C); High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; S.K. Sahoo; Chittaranjan Dash.
What did the court decide?
The Court declined to entertain the writ petition because the 14.02.1994 lease application bore no endorsement of receipt by the authorities, the writ petition contained no averment that any Lease Misc. Case was registered on it, and there was an inordinate delay of more than thirty years in approaching the Court. ¶18