Special Civil Application No 232 of 1996 STATE OF GUJARAT- THRO' SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT vs RAMUBHAI DHIRAJBHAI PATEL Appearance: Shri DA BAMBHANIA for the Petitioner Messrs THAKKAR ASSOC. for Respondent No. 1 CORAM: MR.JUSTICE A.N.DIVECHA Order Date : 15/02/96 ORAL ORDER: 1. Learned Advocate Shri Thakkar for the caveator raises a preliminary objection against maintainability of this petition on the ground of inordinate delay on the part of the petitioner. The impugned order was passed by the Urban Land Tribunal at Ahmedabad on 20th October 1992. No satisfactory explanation is given by or on behalf of the petitioner why it remained inactive for nearly two years and four months when for the first time proposal to put it up before the Government of Gujarat, Revenue Department was taken up on 28th February last. Even thereafter, the delay in shifting the file from one department to another is highly inordinate and it is not satisfactorily explained. This petition therefore deserves to be rejected also on this ground alone. 2. In the result, this petition fails. It is hereby summarily rejected. 15th February 1996 ( A.N.DIVECHA, J.)