Harsh Narayan v. State of U.P. Thru Principal Secy Dept of Forest and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Short dismissal order: writ petition dismissed in default for want of prosecution ('called in revise'; counsel for petitioner absent); interim order, if any, vacated; matter treated as apparently infructuous. Petitioner: Harsh Narayan. Respondents: State of U.P. through Principal Secretary, Department of Forest. Petitioner's counsel: Rakesh Mishra; respondent counsel: C.S.C. (Standing Counsel present). Single Judge: Hon'ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.; Court No. 34; order date 28.1.2020. No statutory provision, precedent, framed issue, or monetary amount appears in the text; value lies only in illustrating dismissal for non-prosecution.
What did the court decide?
The Court inferred that either the cause of action no longer survived, or the petitioner had lost interest, or the petition had otherwise become infructuous, which is why no one appeared to press it on merits.