{"id":21883,"date":"2020-05-09T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/?p=21883"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:54:01","slug":"in-re-cognizance-for-extension-of-limitation-ii-supreme-court-extension-of-limitation-period-taking-into-consideration-the-effect-of-the-corona-virus-covid-19-and-resultant-difficulties-being-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/in-re-cognizance-for-extension-of-limitation-ii-supreme-court-extension-of-limitation-period-taking-into-consideration-the-effect-of-the-corona-virus-covid-19-and-resultant-difficulties-being-faced\/","title":{"rendered":"In Re Cognizance For Extension Of Limitation (II) (Supreme Court)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM NO.6                     Virtual Court 1                   SECTION PIL-W<\/p>\n<p>                              S U P R E M E C O U R T O F        I N D I A<br \/>\n                                      RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS<\/p>\n<p>     SUO MOTO WRIT (CIVIL) NO. 3 of 2020<\/p>\n<p>     IN RE : COGNIZANCE FOR EXTENSION OF LIMITATION<\/p>\n<p>     WITH<br \/>\n     IA No.48411\/2020 &#8211; APPROPRIATE ORDERS\/DIRECTIONS<br \/>\n     IA No.48375\/2020 &#8211; CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION<br \/>\n     IA No.48511\/2020 &#8211; CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION<br \/>\n     IA No.48461\/2020 &#8211; CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION<br \/>\n     IA No.48374\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION<br \/>\n     IA No.48416\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION<br \/>\n     IA No.48408\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION<br \/>\n     I.A NO.\u2026\u2026\u2026 OF 2020 &#8211; FILED BY MR. NARAYAN                       VASUDEO   MARATHE,<br \/>\n     APPLICANT-IN-PERSON<\/p>\n<p>     Date : 06-05-2020 This matter(s) was called on for hearing today.<\/p>\n<p>     CORAM :<br \/>\n                         HON&#8217;BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE<br \/>\n                         HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA<br \/>\n                         HON&#8217;BLE MR. JUSTICE HRISHIKESH ROY<\/p>\n<p>                                         By Courts Motion<\/p>\n<p>     Counsel for the parties<\/p>\n<p>                                   Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Ld. AG<br \/>\n                                   Mr. Tushar Mehta, Ld. SG<br \/>\n                                   Mr. B.V. Balram Das, AOR<\/p>\n<p>                                   Mr.   Dushyant Dave,   Sr. Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Sameer Pandit,   Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Nikhil Ranjan,   Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Utkarsh Kulvi,   Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Pranaya Goyal,   AOR<\/p>\n<p>                                   Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr. Ankur Mahindro, Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Ms. Anannya Ghosh, AOR<br \/>\nSignature Not Verified<br \/>\n                                   Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR<br \/>\nDigitally signed by<br \/>\nCHARANJEET KAUR<br \/>\nDate: 2020.05.06<br \/>\n15:19:02 IST<br \/>\nReason:                            Mr.   Divyakant Lahoti, AOR<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Parikshit Ahuja, Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Ms.   Praveena Bisht, Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Mr.   Kartik Lahoti, Adv.<br \/>\n                                   Ms.   Madhur Jhavar, Adv.<br \/>\n\f                                                  2<\/p>\n<p>                              Ms. Vindya Mehra, Adv.<\/p>\n<p>                              Mr. Mayank Kshirsagar, AOR<br \/>\n                              Mr. Sahil Mongia, Adv.<\/p>\n<p>                              Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR<\/p>\n<p>                              Mr. Narayan Marathe, Applicant-in-Person<\/p>\n<p>            UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following<br \/>\n                               O R D E R<br \/>\nIA No.48411\/2020 \u2013 FOR DIRECTIONS By way of filing this application for directions, the applicant has made the following prayer :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo issue appropriate directions qua (i) arbitration proceedings in relation to section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and (ii) initiation of proceedings under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In view of this <a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/in-re-cognizance-for-extension-of-limitation-supreme-court\/\">Court\u2019s earlier order dated 23.03.2020 passed in Suo Motu Writ Petition (Civil) No.3\/2020<\/a> and taking into consideration the effect of the Corona Virus (COVID 19) and resultant difficulties being faced by the lawyers and litigants and with a view to obviate such difficulties and to ensure that lawyers\/litigants do not have to come physically to file such proceedings in respective Courts\/Tribunal across the country including this Court, it is hereby ordered that all periods of limitation prescribed under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 shall be extended with effect from 15.03.2020 till further orders to be passed by this Court in the present proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>In case the limitation has expired after 15.03.2020 then the period from 15.03.2020 till the date on which the lockdown is lifted in the jurisdictional area where the dispute lies or where the cause of action arises shall be extended for a period of 15 days after the lifting of lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the above, the instant interlocutory application is disposed of.<\/p>\n<p>IA No.48375\/2020 \u2013 CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION AND IA No.48511\/2020 \u2013 CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION AND IA No.48461\/2020 \u2013 CLARIFICATION\/DIRECTION AND IA No.48374\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION AND IA No.48416\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION AND IA No.48408\/2020 &#8211; INTERVENTION APPLICATION Issue notice.<\/p>\n<p>Waive service on behalf of the respondent \u2013 Union of India since Mr. K. K. Venugopal, learned Attorney General for India and Mr. Tushar Mehta, learned Solicitor General, appear on its behalf. Let notice be issued to other respondents. (CHARANJEET KAUR) (SANJAY KUMAR-II) (INDU KUMARI POKHRIYAL) AR-CUM-PS AR-CUM-PS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case the limitation has expired after 15.03.2020 then the period from 15.03.2020 till the date on which the lockdown is lifted in the jurisdictional area where the dispute lies or where the cause of action arises shall be extended for a period of 15 days after the lifting of lockdown<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/in-re-cognizance-for-extension-of-limitation-ii-supreme-court-extension-of-limitation-period-taking-into-consideration-the-effect-of-the-corona-virus-covid-19-and-resultant-difficulties-being-faced\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-judgements","category-supreme-court","judges-chief-justice","judges-deepak-gupta-j","judges-hrishikesh-roy-j","section-5-of-limitation-act","counsel-k-k-venugopal","counsel-tushar-mehta","court-supreme-court","catchwords-corona-virus","catchwords-covid-19","genre-other-laws"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}