Durgadas Asranna v. Veerendrakumar
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Karnataka, Bengaluru; WP No. 27445 of 2025 (GM-CPC); NC: 2025:KHC:40935; decided 14-10-2025 by Justice Pradeep Singh Yerur (single Judge, oral order). Petitioner Durgadas Asranna, defendant No.4 in O.S.No.285/2006 (2006 partition and separate possession suit, VI Additional Civil Judge and JMFC, Tumakuru; 22 respondents including plaintiffs and Mysore Structurals Ltd.), sought a mandamus for disposal within one month, the suit having lingered despite a Coordinate Bench order dated 26.10.2018 in WP.12611/2017 fixing a three-month deadline. Petition disposed: one-month deadline imposed, stringent scrutiny of adjournments, liberty to levy exemplary costs. Keywords: expeditious disposal of suit; delay/non-compliance with earlier direction; Articles 226/227; GM-CPC; Tumakuru; partition suit; exemplary costs for adjournments.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of with a direction to the trial Court (VI Additional Civil Judge and JMFC, Tumakuru) to dispose of O.S.No.285/2006 within one month from receipt of a copy of the order; unnecessary adjournments/applications to be considered stringently, with liberty to impose exemplary costs on either party.