SANGEETA DEVI AND ANOTHER vs SARITA AND OTHERS

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$~40 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 08.07.2025 + CM(M) 1171/2025 & CM APPL. 39435/2025 SANGEETA DEVI AND ANOTHER ......Petitioners Through: Mr. Pankaj Gupta and Ms. Priyanka S. Aneja, Advocates versus SARITA AND OTHERS .....Respondents Through: CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE TARA VITASTA GANJU TARA VITASTA GANJU, J.: (Oral) CM Appl.39434/2025[Exemption from filing certified/legible typed copies] 1. Allowed, subject to the Petitioners filing certified/legible typed copies of the annexures within a period of three weeks. 2. The Application stands disposed of. CM(M) 1171/2025 & CM APPL. 39435/2025[Stay] 3. The present Petition has been filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India impugning the order dated 24.01.2025 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, MACT East District, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi [hereinafter referred to as “Impugned Order”]. By the Impugned Order, the Application under Order I Rule 10 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 [hereinafter referred to as “CPC”] has been dismissed. 4. Briefly the facts are that the Petitioners/Applicants are the unmarried sisters of the deceased and they had filed an Application for being impleaded as parties to the proceedings pending before the Tribunal. The Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 1171/2025 Page 1 of 3 By:RAHUL Signing Date:12.07.2025 04:39:51 learned Tribunal had directed that the wife, mother and son of the deceased, are already Claimants before the learned Trial Court and that the sisters of the deceased do not qualify as Legal Representatives of the deceased. 5. A review of the Application filed by the Petitioner shows that the only ground that is set out in the Application is that the Applicants are the unmarried sisters and they must be