ATMA RAM & ORS. Vs. MOLU RAM & ORS.
LAWS(P&H)-1990-5-117
HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
Decided on May 18,1990

Atma Ram And Ors. Appellant
VERSUS
Molu Ram And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

M.S. Liberhan, J. - (1.) The short point in this petition is that a suit for permanent injunction was fixed for plaintiff's evidence eon May 13,1986, when it was dismissed in default. On May, 15, 1986 restoration of the suit was sought on the grounds that the counsel for the plaintiffs was under a wrong impression, that the case was adjourned to May 23, 1986, the absence was not intentional and there was sufficient cause for the restoration of the suit.
(2.) The courts below declined to restore the suit inter alia holding that the plaintiffs had failed to disclose how they had come to know on May 15, 1986 that the suit was dismissed in default.
(3.) The reason itself appears to be perverse. For restoration of a suit, what the Court is expected to see is whether there was a sufficient cause for absence. The manner of acquiring the knowledge that the suit had been dismissed in default, is not a relevant consideration at all. The object of the Courts is not to tap the litigants in hyper -technicalities but to do justice. Nothing has been stated that the plaintiffs were in any way interested in getting the suit dismissed in default. No mala fides have been attributed to the plaintiffs in this regard. The counsel who has taken the responsibility on himself for being under a wrong impression, did sign the application and he himself conducted the case before the Courts below.;


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