The Supreme Court has restored its earlier order to extend the limitation period till February 28 for filing cases before judicial and quasi-judicial fora in view of the alarming surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.
A special bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices L Nageswara Rao and Surya Kant, which had agreed to extend the limitation period during the hearing, relaxed it in its order uploaded on the apex court website late Monday night.
The order said that the relaxation in the statutory time period has been given after "taking into consideration the arguments advanced by learned counsel and the impact of the surge of the virus on public health and adversities faced by litigants in the prevailing conditions". The order also gave details of the statutory time periods which would now be available to the litigants for filing court cases.
The application for extending time was filed by the Advocate on Records Association. Attorney General KK Venugopal supported the plea and urged the bench to accept it saying the time extension of the limitation period had ended on October 2 last year and can be extended after that date.