Ram Parshad and Others v. Notan Dass
Case brief
What is this about?
Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh; RSA-454-1998; Ram Parshad and others (appellants) v. Notan Dass (respondent); appeal dismissed for want of prosecution on account of repeated absence of appellants despite intimation to their counsel Hemant Bassi; respondent represented by Adarsh Jain, Sr. Advocate (assisted by Kamal Deep Kaur); single-judge bench, Deepak Gupta, J.; oral judgment dated 09.02.2026; not reportable.
What did the court decide?
There was no representation for the appellants on the date of hearing, nor on the previous date, although their counsel (Mr. Hemant Bassi, Advocate) had been duly intimated as reported by the Registry; concluding that the appellants were no longer interested in pursuing the case, the Judge dismissed the appeal for want of prosecution. ¶24