‘Preposterous’: SC slaps Rs 1 lakh fine for 6,616 day delay in appeal By IANS| Published: 5th February 2021 5:13 am IST New Delhi, Feb 4 : The Supreme Court on Thursday made no bones about its utter dissatisfaction with the Centre for continuously failing to file appeals in several matters in time, terming “preposterous” a delay of 6,616 days in filing a special leave petition after the original order. Agonized with the excessive delay in the matter, a bench, headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy, opened the order saying: “The approach of the Union of India in the manner it has filed the present special leave petition exasperates us as all earlier counsel appears to have been thrown in the dustbin!”