P&H: Allows extension of time to deposit sale consideration in specific performance suit.
High Court has set aside an order refusing to extend the time for depositing balance sale consideration in a specific performance case, holding that trial court was wrong in saying it had no power to enlarge time.
The dispute arose from a suit seeking specific performance of an agreement to sell for a house. He claimed that he had already paid substantial amounts and had remained present before the Sub-Registrar on the date fixed for execution of the sale deed, but the vendor did not turn up.
The trial court decreed the suit ex parte in 2018 and directed the purchaser...