SHRI ANIL GUPTA @ PULPUL & ORS. vs SHRI RAM GUPTA

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$~19 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 31.10.2025 + CM(M) 448/2022 & CM APPL. 23046/2022 (stay) SHRI ANIL GUPTA @ PULPUL & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Jaideep Singh, Advocate with LR no. 1 in person. versus SHRI RAM GUPTA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Siddharth Aggarwal, Advocate CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA O R D E R (ORAL) 1. Petitioners, being legal representatives of the suit defendant, have filed this petition to assail order dated 15.10.2019 of the learned trial court, whereby their application seeking amendment of the written statement was dismissed largely on the ground that since trial had already commenced, there was no occasion to allow such amendments. 2. I have heard learned counsel for both sides. 3. On behalf of petitioners, it is contended by learned counsel that what was sought by them to be inserted by way of amendment in the written statement were only the legal pleas. Learned counsel for petitioners contends that the legal pleas are already available to them, so the court ought to have been liberal in allowing those amendments. Learned counsel for petitioners does not dispute that once the trial has commenced, scope of permitting CM(M) 448/2022 Page 1 of 3 pages Signature Not Verified GIRISH Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF DELHI, 2.5.4.20=8401dd889b27a77b2f65ffffe4afec45569af3962c6fb4835 d435f97626cacca, ou=HIGH COURT OF DELHI,CID - 7047638, KATHPALIA postalCode=110003, st=Delhi, serialNumber=d3e86796451ec45c07b5d15570996b40f80cbd2ee e60402c487965ff801e26fa, cn=GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2025.10.31 17:02:00 -07'00' Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:31.10.2025 17:07:04 amendments in the pleadings is extremely narrow, but argues that the preliminary legal objections can be rais