FRIENDS COLONIZERS Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri S. U. Khan, learned Counsel, now appearing for the petitioner, and Sri Y. N. Agarwal, learned Standing Counsel of the State of U. P. representing the respondent Nos. 1, 3 and 4.

(2.) THE writ petition No. 9872 of 1984, M/s friends Colonizers Pvt. Ltd. through Nasim Bano v. State of U. P. and others, was dismissed by the Court on 6th August, 1991, on the prayer of the learned Counsel then appearing for the petitioner. After more than a year and a half, to be precise on 16th March, 1993, the petitioner moved Civil Misc. Application No. 6272 of 1993, through a new Counsel, praying for recall of the order dated 6th August, 1991, dis missing the writ petition one the prayer of the earlier Counsel.

(3.) INDISPUTABLY, the petitioner failed to take requisite steps within the period prescribed by the Rules. It appears that he went into deep slumber and woke up after a lapse of an interminable period of more than eight years. On 19th July, 2001, the petitioner moved the application No. 62634 of 2001, praying for grant of three days time to take steps for service of notice of the Restoration Application on the respondent Nos. 2,5 and 6 in pursuance of the order of the Court dated 15th May, 1993.