03.202 Surinder ugh LR nder Ghuman (deceased) through LR v. Gurpreet S preet Singh & Ors.

. The counsel for the appellant seeks time to effect fect service upon unserved respondent No.3. Let Let fresh notice to unserved respondent No.3 be iss e issued again for 11.12.2023 on filing of fresh proce ocess fee by the counsel for the appellant within a p n a period of four weeks from today, to be served ved as per the procedure prescribed C in CPC for serving the person residing Abroad.” Thereafter, on the last date o date of hearing i.e. 07.08.2025, this Court p ourt passed the following order:- “In the last order order dated 01.06.2023, it was observed by a co-ordi ordinate Bench of this Court that service upon respo espondent No. 3 could not be VIJAY ASIJA 2026.03.13 17.31 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document RSA-2724-2015 (O & M) 3 effected as, learned cou counsel for the appellant has not turned up to collect llect foreign AD notices. Learned counsel nsel for the appellant regrets for the aforesaid lapse pse and prays for issuance of fresh notice to respon spondent No. 3; and further undertakes to furnish ne sh necessary process fee in the Registry within a period eriod of 01 week from today. On his doing so, so, fresh notice be issued to respondent No. 3 for 11 r 11.03.2026. In the meantime time, at the joint request of learned counsel for the the parties, photocopy as well as the soft copy of lo of lower Court records duly tagged, indexed and p d paginated be requisitioned for the date fixed. By the next da t date of hearing, learned counsel the par parties shall furnish respective short synops nopsis, list of dates and events in chronological order rder, written arguments and list of judgments, if any f any as well as the translated copies of the relevant lo nt lower Court record.” However, the office report dat ort dated 05.03.2026 reflects that “Synopsis sis not furnished by learned co counsel for the parties. In compliance iance of order dated 07.08.2025, lea , learned counsel has not taken any steps fo ps for service of respondent No.3…” …”. Thus, despite the specific dire ic directions issued by this Court and the un the undertaking given by learned cou ed counsel for the appellant, no steps have have been taken to comply with the s h the same. Today, learned proxy counsel app sel appearing for the appellant seeks f eeks further time to comply with the directio irection of this Court by furnishing th hing the necessary process fee in the Registr egistry for effecting service upon resp n respondent No.3. VIJAY ASIJA 2026.03.13 17.31 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document RSA-2724-2015 (O & M) 4 A bare perusal of the abo e above facts reveals that the appellant h llant has exhibited a wholly casual casual and negligent attitude in prosecuting ecuting the present appeal. This C his Court has already granted repeated op ated opportunities to the appellant ove ant over a considerable period of time in the in the interest of justice. However, th ver, the conduct of the appellant demonstrat nstrates a complete lack of diligence a gence and seriousness in pursuing the present resent proceedings. It is also pertinent to note that te that this Court has been making strenuous e uous efforts to take up and dispose of ose of old appeals, including the present on nt one which pertains to the year 2 year 2015, so as to reduce the backlog o log of long pending matters. Despite espite such efforts on the part of this Court, Court, the appellant has failed to t d to take even the basic steps necessary f ssary for effecting service upon respon respondent No.3. In these cir ese circumstances, it is evident that n that neither the appellant nor his counsel are sel are genuinely interested in prose prosecuting the present appeal. Consequen equently, this Court is left with no ith no option but to dismiss the present app nt appeal for non-prosecution. Accordingly, the present appe t appeal is hereby dismissed for non-prosec prosecution. Pending application(s), if any if any, shall also stand disposed of. 1, 2026 March 11 Vijay Asija Whether spea Whether Repo r speaking/reasoned Yes / No r Reportable Yes / No ( NIDHI GUPTA ) JUDGE VIJAY ASIJA 2026.03.13 17.31 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document