Smt Sunandakumari v. Malleshwaram Co. Operative Bank Ltd.
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court; WP 4258/2022; GM-DRT; Ashok S.Kinagi; Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India; writ petition disposed as infructuous; loan account closed; Malleshwaram Co-operative Bank Ltd.; Debts Recovery Tribunal; S.A. O.171/2020; C.Misc No.1055/2017; XLIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bengaluru; Sunandakumari; Raghuraman; Sampath A. & Associates; Lokesh K V; Law Vibes; decision dated 06-01-2026. Single-judge oral order closing a debtor-side writ petition (targeting a DRT order of 27.01.2022 and an ACMM order of 06.01.2018) as infructuous after the bank reported the loan account closed and the borrowers did not dispute it; no ruling on the merits of either challenged order; useful only as evidence of loan-account closure/dispute exhaustion, not for any legal proposition.
What did the court decide?
None; the writ petition was disposed of as having become infructuous following closure of the petitioners' loan account, with pending IA(s) disposed of accordingly.