M/S Shree Rattan Mithai and More v. Union of India and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Two-judge bench (Arun Palli, J. authoring the oral judgment; Sudeepti Sharma, J.) of the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh disposed of CWP-4144-2023 (O&M) filed by M/s Shree Rattan Mithai & More against Union of India and others on 05.02.2025 as infructuous, since the refund had already been issued to the petitioner. Petitioner represented by Nikhil Goyal (Advocate); respondents represented by Sourabh Goel (Senior Standing counsel). Keywords: refund already issued, infructuous petition, disposal without merits, no statutes or precedents discussed.
What did the court decide?
Accepting learned counsel's submission that the refund had already been issued to the petitioner and nothing substantive survived, the Court ordered the petition to be disposed of as having been rendered infructuous. ¶14