1999 (8) TMI 861

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....r the Respondent. ORDER 1. The original Co. P. 63 of 1997 was filed on 16-6-1997 and the petitioner had prayed for an order of winding up on the usual ground that the respondents have failed and neglected to discharge their debts and are incapable of doing so. The record indicates that this proceeding was dragged on for one-and-half years and the order sheet is quite eloquent. These winding ....

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....pecialise in playing ducks and drakes with their Advocates and the Courts. In this case finally on 9-12-1998, the petitioners' learned advocates informed the Court that they were helpless because the clients had taken away the papers stating that they would make their own arrangements. It was obligatory on the part of the petitioners when they took the records back from their previous Advocates to....

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....on was, therefore, dismissed. The petitioners' learned Advocate points out to me that the petitioners had taken back the records from their previous Advocates on 7-12-1998 after which they engaged the present learned Advocates who entered appearance on 14-12-1998 by which time, on 9-12-1998 the petition had already been dismissed. The request is that the case be restored and that the same be heard....

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.... that since the timeframe was so short namely that the dismissal order was passed only two days after the petitioners took back the papers from their previous Advocate that this Court should make allowance in this case. Unfortunately, that is not the issue for consideration because the petition was originally filed in June 1997 and had been protracted through several dates of hearing for one-and-h....