P&H: Rejects PRTC Driver’s Reinstatement Plea Over Six-Year Delay

Writ — Delay and laches — Writ petition challenging rejection of claim for reinstatement, filed more than six years after petitioner withdrew an earlier writ petition with liberty to pursue an appeal, was dismissed where no satisfactory explanation for the intervening inaction was furnished. (Paras...

Writ — Alternative remedy — Liberty granted on withdrawal of an earlier writ petition to avail an alternative remedy does not assure litigant that litigant may approach Court at any future time irrespective of inaction, and does not dispense with requirement of approaching Court within...

Write — Delay of 6 years — Earlier writ petition was withdrawn with liberty to avail remedy of appeal — Subsequent realisation that particular remedy is unavailable does not satisfactorily explain prolonged inaction or revive a stale claim. (Paras 7 and 8)