P&H: Allows Amendment of plaint in Common Passage Encroachment Suit, Says Consequential Relief Can Be Added
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed a plaintiff to amend her plaint in a dispute over alleged encroachment on a common passage, holding that the proposed change was only a consequential relief arising from the original pleadings.
Justice Deepak Gupta was hearing a petition filed by Mohinder Kaur under Article 227 of the Constitution after the trial court rejected her application under Order VI Rule 17 of the Code of Civil Procedure. She had filed a suit seeking a permanent injunction to stop the defendants from making further encroachment on a common passage.
According to the plaint, the...