Court No. - 7
Case :- MATTERS UNDER ARTICLE 227 No. - 3841 of 2021 Petitioner :- Shri Pradeep Kumar Respondent :- Shri Chand Gupta And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ram Adhin,Mohd. Ahmad
Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and perused the record.
By means of this writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution, the petitioner has prayed for following relief:-
"(i) a suitable order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the commanding the plaint in suit no. 354 of 1999 (Sri Chand and Others v. Smt. Pradeep Kumar and Others) is pending Additional Civil Judge (S.D.) Room No. 6, Allahabad at the earliest or within reasonable period this Hon'ble court may stipulate in this regard."
Since the suit is of the year 1999, the prayer for its expeditious disposal in a time bound period appears to be genuine. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that till date even the issues have not been framed.
In such above view of the matter, this petition is disposed of with following directions:
(a). Within period of three months from the date of filing of copy of this order alongwith application before the trial court, the trial court shall frame issues considering the issues proposed by the rival parties, if any, within period of three months;
(b). The plaintiff shall concluded his evidence within period of six months and defendant thereafter shall also conclude their evidence, as is undertaken before the Court by the defendant petitioner's counsel within next six months; and
(c). After the evidence is concluded by both the plaintiff and defendants, the trial court shall proceed to do final hearing and decide the suit within a further period of six months.
It is further provided that the trial curt shall abide by the procedure prescribed for hearing and disposal of the suit quite religiously. However, it is provided that the trial court shall fix priority in the hearing of suit in question in the order of preference in which other suits might have been expedited by this court in the past and to that extent time frame provided by this Court hereinabove, will only be directory.
It is further clarified that time frame provided for disposal of the case shall be deemed to be extended in the event concerned district is hit by another surge of pandemic (SARS COV-2/COVID 19) resulting in the suspension of public movement and/or judicial working in the district concerned.
Order available on the official website of the High Court will be taken to be authentic one.
Order Date :- 12.8.2021/Sanjeev