SC rejects a specific performance suit filed after 38 years as time-barred

Shobha Vasant Bhoir & Ors. Vs Soni @ Vandana Gurumukhdas Jagiasi & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court Rejects 38-Year-Old Specific Performance Suit as Time-Barred; Plaint Rejected at Threshold The Supreme Court has held that a specific performance suit filed after an unexplained delay of 38 years is clearly barred by limitation and deserves to be rejected at the threshold under Order VII Rule 11(d) of the Code of Civil Procedure. Setting aside the orders of the Trial Court and the Bombay High Court, the Court observed that a litigant who remains silent for decades cannot reviv...