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