M.Subramanian v. Authorised Officer
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: writ petition; Article 226; certiorarified mandamus; Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT) Chennai; A.IR(SA) No.821/2024; IA No.489 of 2024; pre-deposit; restoration of appeal; CitiBank N.A.; authorised officer; deemed dismissal; conditional compliance order; ten lakh deposit; no opinion on merits; no costs. Relevant for practitioners dealing with appeals rejected for lapse of a tribunal-imposed pre-deposit deadline and High Court orders granting short-fuse conditional compliance windows to restore such appeals.
What did the court decide?
Conditional restoration: deposit of Rs.10,00,000/- by 12 noon on 25.04.2025 to be treated as compliance of the DRAT order dated 20.03.2025, whereupon the appeal stands restored and the DRAT is to consider it on merits; failing payment, the petition is deemed dismissed; no order as to costs; interim application (WMP No.15067 of 2025) disposed of consequentially.