Reasoned adjudication requires consideration of pleadings; unreasoned partial relief order was quashed and remanded for fresh decision.

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....An adjudicatory order must deal with the pleadings and record reasons for accepting or rejecting the reliefs sought; failure to consider the contentions raised and the remaining prayers renders the order non-speaking and vitiated for non-application of mind. As the impugned order granted only part of the relief without addressing the balance claims on merits, it was quashed and the application was remitted for fresh decision, without expressing any view on the underlying merits.....