Supreme Court of India

Gayathri v. M. Girish

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Reported as [2016] 4 S.C.R. 15
Bench Dipak Misra J.
Decided 27 July 2016

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid analysis, we decline to entertain the special leave petition and dismiss it with costs which is assessed at c Rs.50,000/-(Rupees fifty thousand only).

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Or. XVII, rr. 1 & 2 - Multiple Adjournments - Dilatory tactics adopted by parties - Abuse of process of Court - Practice deprecated - In a suit filed in 2007 by Respondent-Plaintiff, a. septuagenarian, for recovery of possession and damages, examination-in-chief continued for long and the matter was adjourned seven times - Defendant sought adjournment after adjournment for cross-examination, on some pretext or the other - Permission granted by trial court, despite such indulgence neither defendant nor her counsel turned up, matter adjourned yet again -

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