Baljit Singh And Anr vs Labh Singh on 10 March, 2026
[20]. To be fair to Learned Counsel for the Respondents
No.2 to 5, he has placed heavy reliance upon an order dated
18.12.2006 passed by this Court while disposing of COCP
No.531 of 1992 (Balwant Singh v. Balwant Kaur & Ors.).
That was a case where despite pendency of the contempt
proceedings for a period of about 14 years, the contemners
vendors (Balwant Kaur and Bachan Kaur) were untraceable
and their whereabouts were unknown. In those
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circumstances, the contempt petition was disposed of with a
direction to the vendees who had purchased the land in
violation of the injunction order that they "shall not be
permitted to take the plea of bona fide purchasers...". The
facts and circumstances of the aforesaid case were, thus,
totally different.