Chandi Singh Alias Chandi Ram v. Sandeep Malik
Case brief
What is this about?
Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh; CR-2666-2025 (O&M); decided 27.01.2026 by Alka Sarin, J.; Article 227 revision; suit for recovery of ₹15,22,500/- dismissed in default; restoration application rejected as filed after 10 months; plea of petitioner's illness and counsel's absence due to son's kidney transplant; no medical record appended; no fault found with impugned orders; petition dismissed; Chandi Singh alias Chandi Ram v. Sandeep Malik; respondent unrepresented.
What did the court decide?
Despite the plea in the restoration application that the petitioner was unwell and that his counsel's son was undergoing a kidney transplant, no medical record of either the petitioner or the counsel was appended with the application; further, on a query by the Court, learned counsel candidly admitted that the kidney transplant was done a year earlier and that there was nothing on record showing the petitioner's illness or the counsel's health-related indisposition.