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It very often happens that after the summons/notices are issued, the defendant/opposite party appears and ask for time to reply. It would be so much simpler if the summons themselves contain a time period after which the defendant/opposite party would have to appear with his reply fully prepared before the court.
(b) Adjournments.---Unnecessary adjournments, time out of number delay the disposal of the cases in the courts. Adjournments are so lightly treated that for any reason on earth a case can be postponed/stifled to another date, which may be after a few months. If three or four adjournments are taken in a case by a party interested in procrastinating it, a whole year is easily passed. Adjournments are generally taken on frivolous grounds. A case study showed 125 adjournments, one after the other. In 12 years period, the order sheet lists only adjournments and the reasons quoted are beyond common imagination. What is disquieting and disconcerting is that very often adjournments are taken in collusion between two opposing lawyers in direct contravention of the provisions of the Advocates Act and that of the proviso to Order XVII. Rule 1 (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, which reads as below :