{"id":197604,"date":"2009-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-water-power-consultancy-vs-sudha-gadodia-anr-on-1-may-2009"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:31:53","slug":"ms-water-power-consultancy-vs-sudha-gadodia-anr-on-1-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ms-water-power-consultancy-vs-sudha-gadodia-anr-on-1-may-2009","title":{"rendered":"M\/S Water &amp; Power Consultancy &#8230; vs Sudha Gadodia &amp; Anr on 1 May, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M\/S Water &amp; Power Consultancy &#8230; vs Sudha Gadodia &amp; Anr on 1 May, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Tarun Chatterjee, H.L. Dattu<\/div>\n<pre>                                          IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\n\n                                CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION\n\n                               CIVIL APPEAL NO.3273-3274 OF 2009\n                            [ Arising out of SLP [C] Nos.9683-9684 of 2009 ]\n\n\nM\/s Water and Power Consultancy\nServices[India]Ltd.                         .... Appellant\n\n\nVERSUS\n\n\n\nSudha Gadodia and Anr.                            ... Respondents\n\n\n\n                                                 O R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>1.     Leave granted.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.     This appeal has been preferred against an order dated 25 th of February, 2009, passed by a<\/p>\n<p>learned judge of the High Court of Delhi at New Delhi in CMM No.143 of 2009 and CMM No.2725<\/p>\n<p>of 2009, by which the High Court reversed an order of the Additional District Judge directing the<\/p>\n<p>respondent to withdraw the admitted rent in respect of the property in question against furnishing<\/p>\n<p>of a bank guarantee.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.     We have heard learned counsel for the parties and after going through the impugned order<\/p>\n<p>and other materials on record, we are not inclined to interfere with the order of the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>However, from a perusal of the impugned order, it appears that the High Court has directed the<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the appellant company to be personally present in Court on 8 thof April, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the facts and circumstances, we do not think that such an order ought to have been<\/p>\n<p>passed directing the Chairman to be personally present in Court only because the appellant<\/p>\n<p>sought number of adjournments.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.     Accordingly this part of the impugned order directing the Chairman of the appellant<\/p>\n<p>company to be personally present in Court is deleted. The appeal is thus disposed of. Since, this<\/p>\n<p>order has been passed in the absence of the respondent, we keep it open for the respondent to<\/p>\n<p>apply for recall of this order, if so advised.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                       &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;J.<\/p>\n<pre>\n                                                    [ TARUN CHATTERJEE ]\n\n\n\n\nNEW DELHI:      ...............................J.\nMAY 01,2009   [ H.L. DATTU ]\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India M\/S Water &amp; Power Consultancy &#8230; vs Sudha Gadodia &amp; Anr on 1 May, 2009 Bench: Tarun Chatterjee, H.L. Dattu IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.3273-3274 OF 2009 [ Arising out of SLP [C] Nos.9683-9684 of 2009 ] M\/s Water and Power Consultancy Services[India]Ltd. &#8230;. 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