HARI LAL Vs. 2ND ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE MEERUT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) DR. Ram Saran Deshpandey has been mentioning this matter in person before the Court since 1-11-1991 every day. It is difficult for the court not to take notice of his mention made every day. The records has been in Court since he made the first mention on 1-11-1991, but on that day the case was passed over at the request of counsel for the petitioner. Earlier the case had been ordered to be listed on an application filed on 28-10-1991. The case was last on the list, the record shows, on 16-3-1989 and then went off the list

(2.) THE complaint of Dr. Deshpandey is that this matter was listed for consideration before the Court on 1-11-1991. On that day he was present in Court, when learned counsel for the petitioner Mr. Pramod Jain made a request to the Court, that he is in some difficulty and the matter be passed over. He did not object to the adjournment sought by learned counsel opposing him on behalf of his client THE case was passed over He did not object, he submits only for the reason that counsel submitted that he is in some personal difficulty. But, he submits that the fact that he did not object to counsel receiving an indulgence of a pass over, did not imply that the case itself would disappear from the list. Dr. Deshpandey points out that as of date the case has not been listed and the court did not order that it should be taken out from the Board of the Court. He submits that he is awaiting consideration of the writ petition once it had been listed, to be taken up in its turn. But, it cannot be taken up in turn as the case has been taken off the cause list at the registry.

(3.) IF the luxury of having a printed cause list causes so much delay, and may be one contributing factor of procedural delays in the listing of cases, the time has come that the court must take stock of the situation and abdicate, this fashionable luxury of a printed cause list which cannot show on its board, the daily listing of cases, in this court of record.