Inherent power to condone delay

There is no such thing as any inherent power of court to condone delay in filing a proceedings before Court/Authority concerned, unless the law warrants and permits it, since it has a tendency to alter the rights accrued to one or the other partly under the statute concerned.

Prakash H. Jain vs Ms. Marie Fernandes on 23 September, 2003

Equivalent citations: (2003) 8 SCC 431= AIR 2003 SC 4591 = SCSuppl 2003 (2) CHN 154

Tendered Votes - use of

Election - Tendered Votes - Counting

Circumstances under which tendered votes can be considered.  Such tendered votes can be taken into account in proceedings to challenge the validity of the election of the returned candidate provided certain conditions are fulfilled.

(1997) 1 SCC 396
Dr. Wilfred D'Souza vs. Francis Menino