M/S Shubham Enterprises, Kaithal v. the State of Haryana and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP-16224-2026 (O&M); Shubham Enterprises Kaithal v. State of Haryana; Punjab & Haryana High Court; writ petition dismissed 01.07.2026; appellate authority orders 10.07.2019 (Annexure P-2) and 28.08.2018 (Annexure P-5); Assessment Year 2013-14; failure to deposit requisite amount; statutory pre-deposit scheme; delay of nearly 07 years; laches/inordinate delay; similar petitions of other assessees not a ground; Tecnimont Private Limited v. State of Punjab (2021) 12 SCC 477 relied on; genuine inability to deposit must be substantiated within reasonable time; Acting Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra; Justice Rohit Kapoor; Addl. A.G. Sourabh Goel; advocate Rajiv Agnihotri.
What did the court decide?
The petitioner was well aware of the orders passed against it in the year 2019, and no satisfactory explanation was furnished for not approaching the Court within a reasonable period of time; the ground of similar petitions elsewhere did not impress the Court.