A M Prabhu v. the Debt Recovery Tribunal
Case brief
What is this about?
NC: 2025:KHC:25804; High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru; Suraj Govindaraj J (single judge, oral order); WP No. 43936 of 2016 (GM-DRT); decided 10 July 2025; petitioner A.M. Prabhu (party-in-person, coffee planter, Chikmagalur); respondents: Debt Recovery Tribunal, Bangalore and State Bank of Mysore, I G Road Branch, Chikmagalur (Counsel: Smt. Divya Purandar for R2); challenge to DRT order dated 18.6.2016 in O.A. No. 41/14; prayer to cross-examine PW-1 and lead defence evidence; Articles 226 and 227 Constitution of India; petition dismissed for non-prosecution.
What did the court decide?
Notice having been served on the petitioner/party-in-person, who neither appeared nor made any arrangement to be represented, the Court found the petitioner was not interested in prosecuting the matter and accordingly dismissed the writ petition for non-prosecution.