cannot be merely an exclusive privilege of Courts and the parties should also be relieved by any delay in approaching the Court, then we may have to come to a stage when we will find no meaningful role for the Limitation Act itself. It should never be possible for any party to come to Court at any stage. The best that the Courts assure is an access to justice. An access to justice again shall be understood as causing no impediment for a person to approach the Court. Courts, if they take long time to give redress to parties who approached the Court within time, should there be a justification for a Court to allow for parties to come at any time they choose. There ought to be a different approach for a person, who diligently exercises his right and an institutional response that is tardy or slow. It cannot be seen at par with a private litigant, who has other preoccupations and finds his own free time to come to Court and still would insist that the same way as the Court is taking time, he is also entitled to take time. I am afraid, I cannot accept a party, who fetters himself by his own laches, must obtain a favourable hearing. Till the law of Limitation remains in the statute Book, I would find that the lackadaisical approach by a party coming to Court to seek for redressal cannot obtain a treatment at par with yet another person who comes to Court in time.
