TMI Blog2021 (1) TMI 1171X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ave the skin of the officers who may be in default in following the due process or may have done it deliberately. We have deprecated such practice and process and we do so again. We refuse to grant such certificates and if the Government/public authorities suffer losses, it is time when concerned officers responsible for the same, bear the consequences. The irony, emphasized by us repeatedly, is t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... . For the Respondent(s) Mr. S.R. Singh, Sr. Adv., Mr. Ankur Yadav, AOR, Mr. Krishna Kumar Yadav, Adv. ORDER The Special Leave Petition has been filed with delay of 502 days with an explanation given in the application for condonation of delay which gives only a saga of moving of file from one place to the other and that too with long interludes. The aforesaid itself shows ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... was given to the Government/public authorities on account of innate inefficiencies was the result of certain orders of this Court which came at a time when technology had not advanced and thus, greater indulgence was shown. This position is no more prevalent and the current legal position has been elucidated by the judgment of this Court in Office of the Chief Post Master General Ors. v. Living ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ony, emphasized by us repeatedly, is that no action is ever taken against the officers and if the Court pushes it, some mild warning is all that happens. Looking to the period of delay and the casual manner in which the application has been worded, we consider appropriate to impose costs on the petitioner(s) of ₹ 25,000/- for wastage of judicial time which has its own value and the sam ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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