Constitution of India

— Art. 226 — Delay and laches — In challenging land acquisition proceedings — Civil suit filed by appellant against scheme framed under S. 50(1) of M.P. Nagar Tatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam and notification under S. 4, declaration under S. 6 and subsequent award passed under Land Acquisition Act — Appellant continued to prosecute the suit despite Supreme Court in the meantime having held in another case that such suit would not be maintainable and remedy lay in filing writ petition before High Court — Only after Civil Judge held the suit to be not maintainable that the writ petition was filed by appellant before High Court — Held, on facts, High Court rightly held that the writ petition was grossly belated, (2006) 7 SCC 508