The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition seeking to amend a plaint in a suit pending for three decades, terming the move as an attempt to “protract the proceedings.” Justice Girish Kathpalia upheld the trial court’s decision to reject the amendment application filed at the stage of rebuttal final arguments, observing that reopening the trial at such a late stage would constitute the “worst travesty of justice.”

The Court also took strong exception to the petitioner’s attempt to attribute the delay to his former lawyer, stating, “This practice of throwing trash on the previous counsel must be deprecated.”

Case Background

The matter, titled Bhoop Singh Gola v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi & Anr. (CM(M) 2208/2025), involves a suit for permanent and mandatory injunction filed by

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