Laxmi Lal vs Smt. Gulab Bai on 25 January, 2006
The decision in the said case is based on an earlier Division Bench judgment of this Court in Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation v. Modi Trade Mills (RLW 2003(4) 2192). It is observed therein that a little more sensitive approach is required to be adopted by the courts in process of dispensation of justice. The Court also desired that a party should not be driven out from the Court by way of punishment for whatever reason. It will be travesty of justice if the Court fails to exercise the power in restoring the proceedings except for rare and exceptional reasons. We may remind an age old well established principle that every court has inherent power to act exdebite justitiae to do real and substantial justice for which it exists. It has always been the anxiety of the courts to decide an issue on merit instead of driving out a party from the court for one or the other technical reason. Even if the party was remiss in complying with the directions of the Court, the petition could have been restored on payment of cost. On refusal to restore a petition is bound to result in meritorious matter being thrown out and the cause of justice being defeated. In an identical situation a Division Bench of this Court refused to restore the petition dismissed as a consequence of peremptory order being not complied with.