RAJIV SYAL vs MANU RAI SYAL AND OTHERS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 157 CR-4172-2026 Date of decision :18.05.2026 RAJIV SYAL ... PETITIONER VERSUS MANU RAI SYAL AND OTHERS ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Nikhil Sabharwal, Advocate for the petitioner. **** PARMOD GOYAL, J. (ORAL) 1. Present civil revision petition has been preferred under Article 227 of the Constitution of India by the petitioner submitting that the suit was filed on 19.09.2018; however, thereafter, the proceedings have progressed at a slow pace. That respondent-defendant No. 7 has taken more than four years to file the written statement, and now the case is fixed for the petitioner-plaintiff’s evidence. The stay application under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 read with Section 151 CPC, 1908 filed along with the suit on 19.09.2018 (Annexure P-2), still remains undecided. He prays that the said application as well as the suit be decided expeditiously. 2. I find merit in the contentions raised on behalf of the plaintiff- petitioner. Admittedly, the suit was instituted in the year 2018 and has now reached the stage of petitioner-plaintiff’s evidence, whereas the stay application filed along with the s