Bharati Shashikant Patil v. Sunita Manoher Patil and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Expedition of long-pending civil suit (instituted 2008, transferred to City Civil Court as Suit No. 2062 of 2024); direction/request to trial court to decide pending interim-relief application and application for rejection of plaint within eight months; trial to be concluded expeditiously if warranted; senior-citizen petitioner citing prejudice from pendency; writ petition disposed with request to City Civil Court judge; no statute or precedent cited.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed with a request to the learned Judge, City Civil Court seized with Suit No. 2062 of 2024 to hear and decide the Applications taken out by the Plaintiff and the Defendant as expeditiously as possible, preferably within eight months from communication of the order; and, if the trial is warranted, to hear and decide the Suit as expeditiously as possible.