Ramkumar Chaturange And Anr. v. Chhattisgarh State Power Distributor and Ltd. And Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Infructuous writ petition dismissed; efflux of time; cause of action does not survive; statement of petitioner's counsel placed on record; dismissal without adjudication of merits. Case: WPS No. 2801 of 2013, High Court of Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal, decision dated 13.03.2024. Parties: Ramkumar Chaturange and Subhash Chandra Sahu (petitioners) v. Chhattisgarh State Power Distributor And Ltd. And Ors., power company HR officials, and Security Sub Inspector Trainees (Korba / Janjgir-Champa). Counsel: Amrito Das and Shreyansh Mehta for petitioners; Rahul Tamaskar, G.A. for State; Veena Nair for Respondent Nos. 4,5,7,8,9,10,11 & 12. No statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Accepting the petitioner's counsel's statement that by efflux of time the cause of action no longer survives and the writ petition has become infructuous, the Court placed the statement on record and dismissed the writ petition as rendered infructuous.