Mohamed Azar vs Idroos – sllr 2008 volume 1 page 232

In the case between Mohamed Azar (substituted petitioner/appellant, intestate heir of Hayathu BeeBee alias Sithy Nazeera) and S.H.M. Idroos (respondent), the Supreme Court addressed whether section 337(1) of the Civil Procedure Code bars the issuance of a writ of ejectment due to the ten-year time limit where execution of the decree had been legally prevented by conditions imposed under the Rent Act and its amendment. It was held that the limitation period under section 337(1) begins only when the judgment creditor becomes legally entitled to apply for the writ, not from the date of the original decree. The Court set aside previous orders and ordered immediate issuance of the writ of ejectment, reaffirming that statutory time bars do not run against parties prevented from acting by legal p