RAJJU Vs. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CONSOLIDATION & ANR.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Shri for the petitioner.

(2.) Facts giving rise to the dispute are as under:-

(3.) It is contended that delay was rightly condoned and thereafter the Settlement Officer Consolidation rightly decide the appeal on merits and the said order has wrongly been upset by the Deputy Director of Consolidation. It has further been submitted that condonation of delay by a court is discretionary and once the discretion had been exercised by the Settlement Officer Consolidation, it was not open for the Deputy Director of Consolidation to have interfered in the exercise of the said discretion.