Gurbachan Singh Batra v. Harsh Barbhutta
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: infructuous petition; death/expiry of petitioner; CRM-M-9272-2019 (O&M); Gurbachan Singh Batra v. Harsh Barbhutta; High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh; H.S. Grewal, J.; disposed of as infructuous; decision date 17.04.2026. Single-Judge oral order disposing of a petition solely because the petitioner has died; contains no ratio on the merits and is citable, if at all, only for the proposition that a petition lapses as infructuous on the petitioner's demise.
What did the court decide?
As the petitioner has expired, the present petition has been rendered infructuous. ¶12