Dipakkumar Patel v. the Administrator Union Territory and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Manish Pitale J., 27-11-2025: batch of 2025 writ petitions (lead: Writ Petition No. 13749 of 2025, Dipakkumar Patel v. Administrator Union Territory and another) challenging Labour Court awards in which the references were answered in the negative; petitions repeatedly called out (sometimes twice) with no petitioner appearance; earlier orders placed them under caption 'for dismissal'; on the appointed date again no counsel ('None for Petitioners'); all petitions dismissed for want of prosecution. Purely procedural disposal — no discussion of merits, statutes, precedents or amounts; citable at most for dismissal for non-prosecution/default.
What did the court decide?
All these writ petitions are dismissed for want of prosecution, there being no appearance on behalf of the petitioners even when the petitions were called out for hearing on the day of the order.