The learned companynsel wanted time to take instructions and accordingly the case was adjourned to 20.2.1990, when the learned Additional Solicitor General stated on behalf of the respondents that they were agreeable to make available one acre of land for the appellants, provided they are ready to accept it on the, following terms Out of the sixty one evacuees represented by the appellants, four of them have already made some companystructions on their respective plots.
Three of them are at one place, who will number be disturbed and their plots will be companypletely exempted.
The negligence on the part of the appellants for about two years and eight months between January, 1969 and September, 1971 four years between 1973 and 1977, and again for three years between 1983 and 1986 has remained unexplained.
The appellants are aggrieved by a land acquisition proceeding in respect to the lands which they had obtained at an auction held in 1959 for the purpose of rehabilitating the evacuees.
This case was taken up for hearing on 13.2.1990 when we pointed out to the learned Additional Solicitor General appearing on behalf of the respondents that although the appellants were guilty of serious negligence, so as to become disentitled to press their case as a matter of right, it did number disable the authorities from granting some relief by allotment of residential plots as was indicated in the letter of Deputy Director New Leases dated 9.6.1983.
Delhi Admn.,
The petitioners do number claim to have made an application before the aforesaid authority as directed,and ignored the matter again for more than three years before filing the writ petition in the High Court on 8.7.1986.
They, then, raised their protest and went on agitating their grievance, but, did number get any relief.
Ultimately, they filed their writ application in July, 1986 which was dismissed by the High Court in limine.
Vikas Bhavan, New Delhi for allotment of residential plot in lieu of your alleged plots.
Lalit Mohan Sharma, J. This appeal by and on behalf of sixty one persons who came as refugees from West Pakistan in 1947 is directed against the order of the Delhi High Court rejecting their writ petition at the admission stage on the ground of laches.
