Ghulam Mohi Ud Din Malik and Ors. v. Union Territory of J and K and Ors. (Revenue Department)
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: dismissal for non-prosecution; default of appearance; petitioner unrepresented through counsel on three consecutive dates; loss of interest in prosecution; interim directions vacated; writ jurisdiction J&K and Ladakh; respondents Union Territory of J&K represented by Deputy AG Bikramdeep Singh; no merits adjudication. Useful only as a procedural precedent on non-prosecution dismissals; contains no ratio on substantive law.
What did the court decide?
The Court recorded that the petitioners had been unrepresented on three consecutive dates, including the day of the order, and observed that the petitioner appeared to have lost interest in prosecuting the writ petition. ¶15