Arihant Guntiwar v. The State of Telangana
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What is this about?
Disposal-on-abandonment case: Telangana HC (N.Tukaramji, J., 14.10.2025) disposed of W.P. No. 27878 of 2019 without costs because the petitioner, a minor (age 15) at filing in 2019 challenging a Family Court compromise decree (OP/F.C.O.P. No. 612 of 2011) granting respondent No.2 second-Saturday visitation rights, had attained majority and stopped prosecuting the matter; contentions deemed abandoned; revival liberty expressly preserved; pending miscellaneous petitions (incl. IA No. 1 of 2019 under S.151 CPC re travel to Canada) closed. Keywords: deemed abandoned; infructuous writ petition; non-prosecution; minor petitioner attained majority; visitation rights; compromise decree; Memorandum of Compromise; writ of mandamus; Articles 14, 19, 21A; Article 226; Section 151 CPC; liberty to revive; disposal without costs. Cite for: formula language on abandoning/deeming writ petitions infructuous and reserving revival liberty; NOT for any substantive position on post-divorce visitation rights or constitutional provisions, on which this court made no finding.