In Brief
The Supreme Court addressed whether a High Court Division Bench correctly dismissed intra-court appeals for delay of 233 days where the appellants were not original parties to the writ petition but became aggrieved by the Single Judge's order. The Court held that being excluded from the original proceedings but affected by the judgment constitutes sufficient cause under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963, warranting condonation of delay. The Court set aside the High Court's dismissal, allowed the appeals, and restored the matter for the Division Bench to decide the appeals on merits.
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