Published on : 10 Dec 2025, 11:39 am 2 min read

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday took objection to what it termed as "culture of adjournments" and said that frequent request to defer cases were impeding the progress of cases.

Justice Neena Bansal Krishna made the observations while hearing an application seeking waiver of ₹20,000 costs imposed on a litigant for seeking adjournments on multiple occasions.

The cost were imposed after the petitioner sought multiple adjournments in a 2021 matter concerning the quashing of a complaint case pending before a Metropolitan Magistrate.

According to Justice Krishna, adjournments were frequently requested at short notice and without sufficient justification in numerous cases. The Court observed that requests for adjournments have grown

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