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1983 DIGILAW 115 (SC)

Radhasoami Satsang Sabha Dayalbagh v. Puttan

1983-03-25

D.P.MADON, V.BALAKRISHNA ERADI, Y.V.CHANDRACHUD

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JUDGMENT : 1. This acrimonious litigation between persons professing a certain religious faith shows how religion is more often preached than practised. The suit is pending since 1942 and every effort is made by one of the two warring camps, each describing itself to be intensely religious, to see that the suit does not come to a successful termination. And this, inspite of the order dated 7.5.1982 and the subsequent orders passed by this Court that the suit shall be disposed of within six months from the date of the earliest of those orders. One round of litigation was taken to the Privy Council. Now in this Special Leave Petition interlocutory orders are challenged from time to time by filing appeals, revisions and what not. This is now the third round of such litigation in this Court. The expedient, which is now resorted to by the petitioner, is to say that a certain order passed on interrogatories is bad. That order was first challenged in the High Court of Allahabad where the civil revision petition was pending for 12 years since 1971. We hope that wiser counsel will prevail over the parties, particularly the petitioners, and the suit allowed to proceed. We direct that the suit shall be taken up for hearing immediately, be heard from day-to-day and that it shall be disposed of without granting any adjournment on frivolous grounds. 2. With these directions, the special leave petition is dismissed.