In Brief
In this special leave petition, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to a High Court's dismissal of a review petition that had been pending for approximately four years. The Court emphasized that review petitions must be disposed of expeditiously and that registries of High Courts have a duty to place review applications before concerned judges promptly with specific hearing dates. The Court rejected the petitioner's attempt to justify delay in filing the SLP by citing the prolonged pendency of the review petition. It held that litigants cannot use deliberate defects in review applications as a subterfuge to later challenge orders, and that the limitation period for review petitions must be respected.
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