Supreme Court of India

G H SHIA CENTRAL BOARD OF WAQF U PversusSUNNI CENTRAL BOARD OF WAKF (SLP

Citation: 2019 INSC 1232
Decided: 9 November 2019
Disposal: Dismissed
Bench: RANJAN GOGOIS A BOBDED Y CHANDRACHUDASHOK BHUSHANS ABDUL NAZEER

Holding

An SLP filed after an inordinate and unexplained delay of 24,964 days must be dismissed.

Summary

The Shia Central Board of Waqf Uttar Pradesh filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court challenging a civil judgment dated 30 March 1946 passed by the Civil Judge, Faizabad. The petition was filed after an inordinate delay of 24,964 days, and the petitioner failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for such delay. The Court examined the principles of delay and laches in the context of SLP proceedings. Since the delay was excessive and unexplained, the Court held that the petition could not be entertained. Consequently, the SLP was dismissed without any consideration of the substantive issues raised.

Issues considered

Whether the Special Leave Petition can be entertained despite an inordinate delay of 24,964 days.
Whether the delay can be condoned under the doctrine of laches or any other principle of law.

Subjects

Special Leave PetitiondelaylachesCivil ProcedureSupreme Court of Indiapetition dismissed

Judgment

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               SUPREME COURT   18 S.C.R. 868               [2019] 18 S.C.R.


A                  SHIA CENTRAL BOARD OF WAQF U P
                                        v.
                    SUNNI CENTRAL BOARD OF WAKF
                       (SLP (Civil) Diary No. 22744/2017)
B                            NOVEMBER 09, 2019
                [RANJAN GOGOI, CJI, S. A. BOBDE,
               DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD,
            ASHOK BHUSHAN AND S. ABDUL NAZEER, JJ.]
             Practice and Procedure – SLP – Delay / Laches – Inordinate
C
      delay of 24964 days in filing SLP – Delay not adequately explained
      – SLP accordingly dismissed.
             CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Special Leave Petition
      (Civil) Diary No. 22744 of 2017.
             From the Judgment and Order dated 30.03.1946 of the Court of
D     Civil Judge, Faizabad (UP) in Regular Suit No. 29 of 1945.
             Tushar Mehta, SG, Raghvendra Singh, Sr. Adv./Adv. Gen., Vinod
      Diwakar, Madan Mohan Pandey, Ajay Kumar Mishra, AAGs, Dr. Rajeev
      Dhavan, Zafaryab Jilani, Ms. Meenakshi Arora, K. Parasaran, C.S.
      Vaidyanathan, Sushil Kumar Jain, Ranjit Kumar, Shekhar Naphade, Vikas
E     Singh, Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, P.S. Narasimha, V. Shekhar, R.N. Venjrani,
      S.P. Singh, Aman Sinha, Jaideep Gupta, Dr. P.N. Mishra, Sr. Advs., Ejaz
      Maqbool, Shahid Nadeem, Ms. Akriti Chaubey, Ms. Qurratulain, Gautam
      Prabhakar, Wasif Rahman Khan, Kunwar Aditya Singh, Ms. Siddhi Padia,
      Shakil Ahmed Syed, Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Uzmi Jameel Husain, Daanish
      Ahmad Syed, Mohammad Sulaiman Khan, Zia Ul Qayuim, Mushtaq
F     Ahmad Siddique, Shail Kumar Dwivedi, Mohd. Nizamuddin Pasha, M.R.
      Shamshad, Nizampasha, Zaki Ahmad Khan, Aditya Samaddar, Ms. Sarah
      Haque, Ms. Bhabna Das, Ms. Rashmi Singh, Ms. Chitra Vats, Bhupender
      Yadav, P.V. Yogeswaran, Gobind Kumar, P.K. Singh, Ms. Aditi, Anirudh
      Sharma, Amit Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Pranav Kumar, Ashish Kumar
G     Upadhyay, Babul Kumar, Y. Lokesh, Akshay Nagarajan, P. Abinesh
      Karthik, Priya Ranjan Roi, Anil Hooda, Ajay Sharma, Puneet Jain, R.L.
      Verma, Arun Sharma, Ms. Christi Jain, Tarunjeet Verma, Varun Sharma,
      Harshit Khanduja, Harsh Jain, Abhinav Deshwal, Abhinav Gupta,
      Shailendra Sharma, Ms. Pratibha Jain, M.K. Tiwari, D. Bharat Kumar,
      Yash Mishra, Ankit Raj, Indira Bhakar, Rajesh Singh, Vineet Pandey,
H
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 SHIA CENTRAL BOARD OF WAQF U P v. SUNNI CENTRAL                         869
                 BOARD OF WAKF

Ms. Nidhi Jaiswal, Santosh Kumar, T. Bhaskar Gowtham, Ashwin Kumar,      A
Kumar Mihir, Ms. Shristi Mishra, Dwijendra Prasad Gupta, Deepak
Kumar, Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Irshad Ahmad, Abhikalp Pratap Singh,
Ms. Lakshmi S. Iyer, Ms. Aishwarya Dash, M. Taiyyab Khan, Mujibuddin,
Tasbrik Ahmad, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Vivek Sharma, Pallav Mongia,
Rajesh Raina, Abhinav Goyal, Dawneesh Shaktivats, Narendra Kumar,
                                                                         B
Utkarsh Kashyap, Saayan Kunal, Jamshed Bey, Ms. Priyambica
M. Jha, Ms. Deepika Kaliya, Mritunjaya Singh, Sanjay Kumar Mishra,
Satwik Misra, Smarhar Singh, Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Dr. S.K. Verma,
Ms. Aakancha Verma Chandhiok, Janmay Verma, Binay Kumar Das,
Ms. Priyanka Das, Ms. Joyoti Kundu Goyal, Ms. Vimla Sinha, Baldev
Atreya, Dr. Alok Kumar Sharma, Ms. Dhriti Singh, M.C. Dhingra, Piyush    C
Kant Roy, Gaurav Dhingra, Mrs. Abha Roy, Vikrant Yadav, Ms. Indira
Kandra, Ms. Arna Das, Ms. Kamakshi S. Mehlwal, Mohit Yadav,
Ms. Deepti J. Raj, Ms. Rubina Jawed, Md. Izhar Alam, Ramjee Pandey,
Anoop Bose, Girjesh Pandey, Antariksh Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Sanjeev
Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Akash Kumar Singh, Ms. Divyani Singh,
                                                                         D
Ms. Vrinda Jhingan, Uday Prakash Yadav, Ms. Nabhanya Sharma,
Hement Sharma, Aushothosh Sharma, Niraj Srivastava, Sujit Jha, Alok
Singh, Narayan R. Panicker, Abhishek Singh, K.K. Khurana, M.K.
Pandey, Amit Kumar Singh, Shiv Nand Mishra, Rajkumar Parashar, Hari
Shankar Jain, Ms. Yashmi Sehgal, Ms. Kanika Rai, Ms. Pooja Rai, Ms.
Bandana Mishra, Vishnu Shankar Jain, Ms. Vaishnavi Ranjana, Pankaj       E
Kumar Verma, Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Vishwanath B. Gadnis, Radni
V. Gadnis, Varinder Kumar Sharma, Manoj K. Mishra, Umesh Dubey,
Jyoti Mishra, Mahendra Singh, D.K. Mishra, Vijay Pal, Shyamal Kumar,
Sunil Kumar Tomar, Sujeet Kumar, Bitu Kumar Singh, Balraj Singh Malik,
Shyam Sunder Gupta, R.S. Rond, R.P. Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Shantanu
                                                                         F
Sharma, Ms. Ranjana Agnihotri, Ms. Sangeeta Mandal, Ms. Swati Singh,
Ms. Taruna A. Prasad, Ms. Sukanya Basu, Ms. Shimantika Mandal,
Rajeshwar Nath Mishra, Ms. Swati Singh for M/s. Fox Mandal & Co.,
Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, Zeeshan Rizvi, Anas Zaidi, Imtiaz Ahmad,
S. Mansoor Ali, Rashid Saeed, Aftab Ali Khan, M. Tayyab Khan,
Mujeebuddin Khan, Ali Safeer Farooqi, Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Mumtaz Alam      G
Siddiqui, Sheik Maulali Basha, Piyush Beriwal, Ms. Swati Ghildiyal,
Surender Kumar Gupta, B.V. Balram Das, B. Krishna Prasad, Ravindra
Raizada, Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, S.K. Dwivedi, Rajeev Kumar Dubey,
D.N. Dubey, Shashank Shekhar Singh, Pankaj Sharma, Sudhakar
Kulwant, Ajay Jain, Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Saurav Singh Chauhan,
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A     Ashish Tiwari, Siddharth Krishan Dwivedi, Ms. Nidhi Dwivedi, B.N.
      Dubey, Aviral Saxena, Ashiwan Mishra, Ms. Manvi Dixit Sharma, B.P.
      Singh Dhakray, Shakit Singh Dhakray, Kamlendra Mishra, Manish Shukla,
      sAmit Kumar, Pankaj Pandey, Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Vikas Singh Jangra,
      Sarthak Nayak, Shridhar Pottaraju, Ms. Ankita Sharma, Prakash Gautam,
      Amit Kumar Pathak, V.C. Shukla, Rahul G. Tanwani, Rishi Raj Sharma,
B
      Tushar Thareja, Sayooj Mohandas, Praneet Pranav, Ms. Shivani Tushir,
      Sindoora VNL, Ms. Aditi Tripathi, Ms. Kanti, Prashant Singh, Rajesh
      Kumar, Gaichangpou Gangmei, Arjun D. Singh, Abhishek R. Shukla,
      Mukunda Rao Angara, Siddhartha Talukdar, Ms. Shiwani Tushir,
      Ms. Shweta Parihar, Ms. Gavarraju Ushasri, Yashvir Kumar, Vishnu
C     Thulasi Menon, D. Bharat Kumar, Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Rishi
      Raj Sharma, Anish Kumar Gupta, B.N. Dubey, Ms. Devika Gulati, Kumar
      Gaurav, Robin Khokhar, Ms. Aparna Trivedi, Amit Kumar, Ms. Babita
      Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Mohan, Niaz Ahmad Farooqui, Tanveer
      Ahmad Khan, Milan Laskar, Zaki Ullah Khan, Mohd. Shakim,
      Mohammad Noorullah, Mohd. Umar Iqbal Khan, Vaibhav Tandon, Pulkit
D
      Chandna, Mohd. Shahib, Mohd. Aamir Dabas, Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi,
      Abdul Qadir, Ibad Mushtaq, Ms. Aditi Gupta, Lakshmi Raman Singh,
      Chandra Prakash, Vivek Singh, Ms. Udita Singh, C.P. Rajwar, Srikaanth
      S., Abhishek Sharma, Shashank Shekhar, Rituraj, Ms. Sheetal Rajput,
      Satwik Misra, Ms. Ritika Rani, Ravishankar Kumar, Anupam Mishra,
E     V. Harikumar, Pankaj Sharma, Hitesh Kumar Sharma, S.K. Rajora,
      Ms. Anika Nissar Syyed, Prerit Shukla, , Sudhakar Dwivedi, A. Deb
      Kumar, Ms. A. Deepa, Shashank Singh, Ambuj Ojha, Abhishek Atrey,
      Dr. Ashwini Bhardwaj, Neeraj Sharma, Umesh Babu Chaurasia,
      Ms. Vidyottama, Ajay Kumar Pandey, Sai Deepak, Ravindra Lokhande,
      Mukul Singh, Satya Ranjan Swain, Deepak Goel, Rajesh Kumar Singh,
F
      Ms. Kavitha K.T., Dr. Ashwani Bhardwaj, Neeraj Sharma, Umesh Babu
      Chaurasia, Ms. Priyanka Swami, Navneet Kumar, Vaibhav Chadha,
      Siddhartha Sinha, Samar Vijay Singh, Govind Kumar, Harshit Kaushik,
      Manoj Kumar, Ms. Shweta Bharti, Shantanu Malik, Anil Tiwari,
      Ms. Ananya Baweja, Vishal Srivastava, Virendra Chaubey, Awadhesh
G     Chaubey, Karunesh Kumar Shukla, Anil Kumar, Amit Pawan, R.S. Mishra,
      Ms. Ayuseya, Dr. P.N. Mishra, Ms. Ranjana Agnihotri, Ms. Sangeeta
      Mandal, Barun Kumar Sinha, Mrs. Pratibha Sinha, Ms. Baby Devi Bonia,
      Birendra Kumar Choudhary, Arun Kumar, Abhishek, Anil Kumar, Jitendra
      Kumar Tripathi, Mrs. Anubha Bhardwaj, Dinesh Bhati, Yadvendra Dutt
      Dwivedi, B.K. Satija, Aditya Sharma, Mrs. Minakshi Vij, C.R. Jaya Sukin,
H
 SHIA CENTRAL BOARD OF WAQF U P v. SUNNI CENTRAL                            871
                 BOARD OF WAKF

Ms. Abhilasha Tungathurthy, Ajay Bansal, Mrs. Veena Bansal, Gaurav          A
Yadava, B.K. Satija, Mohd. Ainul Ansari, Ms. Garima Shukla, Sujeet
Kumar, Pardeep Jatav, Sunil Khatwani, Abdul Karim Ansari, Mukesh
Verma, Vivek Vishnoi, R.S. Tripathi, Raj Singh Rana, Pawan Kumar
Shukla, Kamal Kumar Pandey, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Dr. Gunratan
Sadavarte, Dr. Jayshri Laxmanrao Patil, Vipin Kumar Saxena, T.N.
                                                                            B
Saxena, G.P. Mahto, Sanjeet Paliwal, Vishal Tewari, Yash Pal Dhingra,
Nachiketa Joshi, Ms. Sucheta Joshi, Bharat Sood, Ayush Anand,
V.V.V.M.B.N. Pattaviram, Shubhendu Anand, Neeraj, Ankit Raj, R.K.
Rajvanshi, Harshvardhan Singh Rathore, Baij Nath Patel, Ms. Baby Devi
Bonia, Sunil Kumar Tomar, Gopal Jha, Yasharth Kant, Udayaditya
Banerjee, Sudipto Sircar, Bhav Ratan, Ms. Ankita Chaudhary, Aditya          C
Singh, Mukul Singh, Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, Md. Irshad Hanif, Rizwan
Ahmad, Aarif Ali Khan, Mujahid Ahmad, Manoj V. George, Syed Faizan,
Sheik Moulali Basha, Towseef Ahmad Dar, Syed Mehdi Imam,
Ms. Shamama Anis, Atif Suhrawardy, Tabrez Ahmad, Omar Siddiqui,
Nauras Suhrawardy, Md. Noorullah, Javaid Muzaffar, Tashriq Ahmed,
                                                                            D
Ghufran Imtiaz, Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Sharad Chauhan, Arup Banerjee,
Prakash Sharma, Pankaj Sharma, Prashant Sharma, Anuj Saxena, Ms.
Prakrati Raj, Achyut Saxena, Mohd. Naved, Md. Shahid Anwar, Advs.
for the appearing parties.
      The following Judgment of the Court was delivered :
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                          ORDER

SLP (Civil) Diary number 22744 of 2017

       There is an inordinate delay of 24964 days in the Special Leave
Petition filed by the Shia Central Board of Waqf Uttar Pradesh against      F
the final judgment dated 30 March 1946 of the Civil Judge, Faizabad.
The delay has not been adequately explained. The Special Leave Petition
is accordingly dismissed.

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Bibhuti Bhushan Bose                                       SLP dismissed.




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