JITENDARJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA vs SURRINDERJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA & ORS.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 29.07.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 06.08.2025 + FAO(OS) 117/2024, CM APPL. 48772/2024, CM APPL. 48773/2024, CM APPL. 48774/2024 & CM APPL. 48775/2024 JITENDARJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA .....Appellant Through: Mr. Aseem Chaturvedi, Mr. Shivank Diddi & Mr. Anuj Shrotriya, Advs. versus SURRINDERJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Chetan Lokur, Advocate for R-1and R-2. Ms. Kanika Agnihotri and Mr. SachinSharma, Advs. for R-3. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR JUDGMENT ANIL KSHETARPAL, J. 1. Through the present Appeal filed under Section 10 of the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, the Appellant/Defendant No.1 assails the correctness of the impugned order dated 14.05.2024 passed by the learned Single Judge in I.A. No. 5052/2019, whereby an application filed by the Appellant under Order VI Rule 17 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 [hereinafter referred to as ‘CPC’], in Civil Suit (OS) No. 1155/2015 titled as Surrinderjeet Singh Ahluwalia & Anr. v. Jitendarjit Singh Ahluwalia & Anr. [hereinafter referred to as ‘the Signature Not Verified Signed By:SAVITA FAO(OS) 117/2024 Page 1 of 6 PASRICHA Signing Date:06.08.2025 17:25:00 Civil Suit’]. Vide the impugned order, the learned Single judge declined the Appellant’s prayer to amend his written statement dated 09.10.2015 in a suit for partition, declaration, permanent injunction and rendition of accounts pending adjudication before the learned Single Judge. 2. Flat no. B-50C, Second Floor, Gangotri Enclave, Alaknanda, New Delhi is the ‘Suit Property’. As per the case set up by the Respondent Nos.1 & 2/ Plaintiffs, the suit property was owned and possessed by their late father, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Ah