The Limitation Act is an obstacle in the delivery of Justice. In India, where a large percentage of population, which is illiterate or semi, rather just literate, very often deprived of Justice, only because of this bogus Act. Not only the illiterate but others too suffer sometimes due to this Act.
No doubt, the delay is sometimes condoned by the Judges, but it gives room for grudge to the petitioner, when his application for condonation of delay is turned down.
In an interesting case, my request was referred back after deliberation for 7 yrs., to the DRM/NR/Lucknow for reconsideration, by the learned CAT. As my claim was again rejected, I approached the CAT with a fresh petition, which was declared time barred by the learned CAT. My common sense says that it was jurisdictional error of the CAT, who, instead of deciding the case themselves, referred it to the DRM and the CAT, therefore, should not have declared the petition as timebarred.
All said and done, it appears reasonable to either scrap the Act or streamline it and lay down a fixed time frame for all types of Appeals, Review etc, which should not be less than 5 years in any case.
