Govt must consider extension of expiry dates under provisions

During the first and second waves of the pandemic, the government extended many deadlines for filing various applications and even the expiry dates of import licenses and export obligation periods

Last Monday, the Supreme Court directed that the period from 15th March 2020 to 28th March 2022 shall stand excluded for the purposes of limitation as may be prescribed under any general or special laws in respect of all judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings and that the balance period of limitation, if any, shall be reckoned from 1st March 2022. The government must take note and consider suitable extensions for other expiry dates prescribed under various provisions.

In March 2020, the Supreme Court took suo-motu cognizance of the Covid-19 pandemic and extended the period of limitation for judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings from