Research › Search › Judgment

Gauhati High Court · body

2025 DAILYLAW 8034 (GAU)

SRI TAPAN SAHA AND 3 ORS. v. SRI JOYKANTA KALITA AND 9 ORS.

I.A.(Civil)/1127/2022 · 2025-04-20

Mridul Kumar Kalita

body2025

Judgment text

Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.

Page No.# 1/5 GAHC010036972022 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : I.A.(Civil)/1127/2022 SRI TAPAN SAHA AND 3 ORS. S/O- LATE UPENDRA NATH SAHA, R/O- WARD NO. III, GAURIPUR TOWN, P.O. GAURIPUR, P.S. GAURIPUR, DIST.- DHUBRI, ASSAM, PIN- 783331. 2: SOVAN SAHA S/O- LATE UPENDRA NATH SAHA R/O- WARD NO. III GAURIPUR TOWN P.O. GAURIPUR P.S. GAURIPUR DIST.- DHUBRI ASSAM PIN- 783331. 3: RATAN SAHA S/O- LATE UPENDRA NATH SAHA R/O- WARD NO. III GAURIPUR TOWN P.O. GAURIPUR P.S. GAURIPUR DIST.- DHUBRI ASSAM PIN- 783331. 4: JIBAN KRISHNA SAHA S/O- LATE UPENDRA NATH SAHA R/O- WARD NO. III GAURIPUR TOWN P.O. GAURIPUR P.S. GAURIPUR DIST.- DHUBRI ASSAM PIN- 783331 VERSUS Page No.# 2/5 SRI JOYKANTA KALITA AND 9 ORS. S/O LATE BIDITRAM KALITA, R/O GAURIPUR TOWN, WARD NO. 3, PO GAURIPUR, PS GAURIPUR, DIST. DHUBRI, ASSAM, PIN-783331 2:LAKSHMIKANTA KALITA D/O LATE BIDITRAM KALITA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 3 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 3:ON THE DEATH OF SUBODH SAHA HIS LEGAL HEIRS 3.1:MRS. AROTI SAHA W/O LATE SUBODH SAHA R/O VILL-GAURIPUR WARD NO. 4 P.O.-GAURIPUR DIST-DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 3.2:MRS. ARPITA SAHA D/O LATE SUBODH SAHA C/O PRITAM SAHA (GOBIND SAHA) VILLAGE SHANTINAGAR WARD NO. 13 PO DHUBRI DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783301 3.3:SUJIT SAHA S/O LATE SUBODH SAHA R/O VILLAGE-GAURIPUR WARD NO. 4 PO GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 4:ON THE DEATH OF SUBAL SAHA HIS LEGAL HEIRS Page No.# 3/5 4.1:SMTI. SHIPRA SAHA W/O LATE SUBAL SAHA R/O GAURIPUR TOWN P.O.-GAURIPUR NEAR NARI SAMITI DIST-DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 4.2:SUMIT SAHA S/O LATE SUBAL SAHA R/O GAURIPUR TOWN PO GAURIPUR NEAR NARI SAMITI DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 4.3:SUDIP SAHA S/O LATE SUBAL SAHA R/O GAURIPUR TOWN PO GAURIPUR NEAR NARI SAMITI DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 4.4:SAURAV SAHA S/O LATE SUBAL SAHA R/O GAURIPUR TOWN PO GAURIPUR NEAR NARI SAMITI DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 5:JITENDRA NATH SAHA S/O LATE JOGENDRA NATH SAHA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 3 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 6:NIRMAL SAHA Page No.# 4/5 S/O LATE JOGENDRA NATH SAHA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 3 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 7:RAJIB SAHA S/O LATE MOHALAL SAHA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 3 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 8:SHEFALI BALA SAHA W/O LATE MOHANLAL SAHA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 3 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 9:UTPAL SAHA S/O LATE PARESH SAHA R/O GARUIPUR TOWN WARD NO. 4 PO GAURIPUR PS GAURIPUR DIST. DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-783331 10:THE STATE OF ASSAM REPRESENTED BY THE COLLECTOR OF DHUBRI DISTRICT P.O.-DHUBRI DIST- DHUBRI ASSAM PIN-78330 Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. P P BARUAH, Advocate for the Respondent : MR D CHAKRABORTY, Page No.# 5/5 BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MRIDUL KUMAR KALITA ORDER Date : 21.04.2025 1. Heard Mr. R. Sarma, learned counsel for the applicants. Also heard Ms. B. Hazarika, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Ms. R. Choudhury, learned counsel for the respondent Nos. 1, 2 and 9. 2. As per office note dated 27.02.2025, the notice issued to respondent Nos. 3(ii) and 5 are held to be duly served. The notices on all the other respondents are already served. 3. This application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 has been filed by the applicants for condoning the delay of 289 days in filing an application for amendment of cause-title of RSA No. 278/2019 and for bringing on record the names of the legal heirs and representatives of the deceased respondent No. 3. The applicants have mentioned the reasons for delay in paragraph Nos. 3, 4 and 5 of the instant application. 4. The learned counsel for the respondent Nos. 1, 2 and 9 have not objected to the prayer for condoning the delay. 5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties as well as the reasons shown for the delay in preferring the connected amendment application, the delay of 289 days in preferring the connected interlocutory application [I.A.(C) No. 1128/2022] is hereby condoned and this interlocutory application is allowed. JUDGE Comparing Assistant