Through instant appeal, appellant has assailed vires of order dated 21.06.2021, passed by learned Single Bench of. this Court, whereby appellant's constit utional petition, assailing order dated 17.05.2017, passed by Respondent No. 4 rejecting the bid offered by appellant, was dismissed on the principle of lathes having been filed after lapse of 04-years.
2. Learned counsel for appellant, at the very outset, was confronted with the observations of learned Single Judge recorded in the impugned order qua lathes. In response, he could not controvert the same despite arguments at some length.
3. Arguments heard. Available record perused.
4. Admittedly , the order impugned through constitutional petition was passed on 17.05.2017 and appellant came to know about said order on 02.10.2017 when the first criminal original filed by him-was disposed of, however , despite having knowledge of the aforesaid impug ned order , the writ petition was filed in the year 2021 i.e. about 04 years after passing of impugned order . Needless to observe here that law and Courts come to the aid of a person who is vigilant and not to the aid of a person who is negligent or indolent. In such cases, golden maxim that "law aids the vigilant and not the indolent" cannot be over-sighted. Helpful hand cannot be extended to a litigant having gone into deep slumber on having become forgetful of his rights. Learned Single Judge, keeping in view the above circumstances, rightly refused to interfere in the matter .
5. No illegality has been pointed out in the impugned findings, which are based upon the law laid down by the Hon'ble Apex Court in State Bank of Pakistan through Gover nor and another v. Imtiaz Ali Khan and others (2012 SCMR 280 ), thus, no exception can be taken to the same.
6. In view of the above, instant appeal, being devoid of any merit, is hereby dismissed . No order as to costs.