Cement Corporation of India v. Tara Chand

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Dismissal for non-prosecution of four stale O&M writ petitions before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, decided orally by Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi on 20-05-2025. Cases: CM-7820-CWP-2025 in/and CWP-16102 of 1999 (O&M); CWP-16101 of 1999 (O&M); CWP-1461 of 2000 (O&M); CWP-1483 of 2000 (O&M). Parties: Cement Corporation of India (petitioner in the two 1999 writs; respondent in the two 2000 cross-writs), Tara Chand and Mukesh Kumar (each respondent and petitioner respectively in the paired cases); only advocate appearing was Mr. D.P.S Bajwa for respondent No.1 in CWP-16102 of 1999; none appeared for the petitioners on the last date of hearing or on the decision date. Key points: impleading of LRs (legal representatives) of respondent No.1 allowed for prosecution purposes only; Registry directed to amend memo of parties; petitions pending ~26 years with no stay of the award; petitioners deemed probably no longer interested; pending applications disposed; photocopy of order to circulate to connected files; speaking order, not reportable. Useful search terms: non-prosecution, impleading LRs, legal representatives, no stay of award, abandoned writ petition, Cement Corporation of India, Tara Chand, Mukesh Kumar.