Limitation for Registration of consent decree
Since in the instant case, the time for filing the
Appeal came to over on 20.10.2011 and since no Appeal was filed, the decree can be said to have become final on the said day, it necessarily
will have to follow that the document which was lodged on 27.12.2011
was within time. The period of seven months that has been taken by the Authority to adjudicate the stamp duty and the penalty payable obviously
cannot be taken into consideration whilst computing the period of said four months as also the period which has been spent whilst prosecuting
the above petition.
Bombay High Court
Kirti Jagdish Mulani vs H on 17 January, 2013
