CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA vs M/S. VARDHMAN FOODS & ANR.

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$~122 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 25th, August, 2025 + CM(M) 1612/2025 & CM APPL. 52826-52827/2025 CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Anuj Jain, Advocate. versus M/S. VARDHMAN FOODS & ANR. .....Respondent Through: None. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioner-Bank has filed a recovery suit which is commercial in nature. 2. When the abovesaid suit was taken up by the learned Trial Court on 06.08.2025, counsel for the plaintiff informed that the Bank was not having any other alternate address of the defendant. 3. Learned Trial Court, after perusing various pervious orders, expressed its resentment as to why the Bank had no mechanism to find out the address of any such debtor, who had been provided with a cash-credit facility. 4. Learned Trial Court noted that, invariably, in such type of matters, the concerned plaintiff prays for service through substituted mode and the matters are, then, proceeded against ex-parte and, even after ex-parte decree, no execution petition is, generally, filed. 5. While noting the above, the learned Trial Court went on to pass various directions to the General Manager of the plaintiff-Bank to furnish certain Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 1612/2025 1 By:DINESH CHANDRA Signing Date:26.08.2025 18:37:32 information and also to appear in-person. 6. The observations in this regard are found recorded in para 7 of the order, which read as under:- “(7) The concerned General Manager will furnish the following information under his signatures on affidavit:- 1. In how many cases, plaintiff bank has advanced loan (vehicle loans, property loans, personal loans and other loans) ranging from Rs. 3 lacs to Rs. 2 crores since 01.01.2022 till date within South Z