Narayan Chandra Das v. Rajo Bala Dasi & Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: restoration of petition dismissed in default; repeated defaults; negligent and casual litigant; overburdened dockets; restoration application dismissed; CAN dismissed. Parties: Sri Narayan Chandra Das (petitioner) v. Rajo Bala Dasi & Ors. (opposite parties). Case: CO 2651 of 2011, application CAN 5 of 2025, decided 29.10.2025 by Dinesh Kumar Sharma, J. Prior history: dismissals in default on 10.03.2016, 21.12.2022 (of CAN 1 & 2 of 2022), 11.12.2023 and 06.01.2025; restorations on 22.03.2023 (CAN 3 of 2023) and 22.11.2024. Outcome: restoration application dismissed; petition remains dismissed in default of 6th January, 2025.
What did the court decide?
The petitioner has throughout been negligent and casual towards the petition; the casual and negligent approach cannot be allowed to further burden the courts, whose dockets are already overburdened.