Mohd. Hasib Khan and Another v. Additional Commissioner and 5 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court writ petition (Writ - C No. 42283 of 2018, Mohd. Hasib Khan and another v. Additional Commissioner and 5 others) dismissed for want of prosecution on April 24, 2026 by Sudhanshu Chauhan, J.; petitioners' counsel did not appear when the list was revised; interim order, if any, vacated; no merits adjudication, no statutes or precedents cited. Counsel: Dinesh Pathak, Rakesh Pathak and Shahnawaz Akhtar for petitioners; C.S.C. for respondents.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition is dismissed for want of prosecution because no one appeared on behalf of the petitioners to press the petition when the list was revised; the dismissal is purely procedural and no issue on the merits was adjudicated. ¶¶11