MANOHAR LAL vs DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND ORS

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 25.09.2025 Judgment pronounced on:28.10.2025 FAO(OS) 106/2025 & CM APPL. 59689/2025 and CM APPL. 59690/2025 MANOHAR LAL .....Appellant Through: Mr. Vikas Khatri, Mr. Manas Khatri, Ms. Seema Khatri & Ms. Khushboo Pathak, Advs. Versus DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. G.S.Oberoi, ASC for DDA. Mr. Raghav Narayan, Adv. for R-8. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR JUDGMENT ANIL KSHETARPAL, J. 1. Through this first appeal under Section 10 of the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, the Appellant assails the Order dated 26.08.2025 [hereinafter referred to as “Impugned Order”] passed by the learned Single Judge in Interlocutory Application No. 4032/2025 in Civil Suit (OS) No. 203/2024. The moot question that arises here is whether ad valorem court fee on the market value of the property is payable in a suit for declaration bundled with the relief of injunction. 2. The brief factual matrix of the case leading to the filing of the present appeal has been noted hereinafter: 2.1 Sh. Manohar Lal/Appellant has filed a Suit for Declaration, mandatory