JUDGMENT

[VIA VIDEO CONFERENCING]

Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, J. This litigation has its origin in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which continues to rage even though this litigation has travelled from the suit Court to the appellate Court. This has also been the season of lockdowns and having an opportunity to watch Over-The-Top (OTT) media platforms and which, as distinct from watching cinema, compressing the story in three odd hours, have shows where the story spans several seasons with each season comprising of several episodes. Holding Court, during the pandemic, virtually from our respective homes instead of from the Courtrooms has also given us opportunity to look at litigation differently and we could not but notice the similarity of litigation with the dramas/shows comprising of several seasons which we have now also had occasion to watch. Not only the stages of the litigation before the suit Court and before the appellate Court are found to have resemblance to the successive seasons of such dramas/shows, other aspects of litigation are also found to have similarity with such dramas/shows. We will thus give this judgment, the flavour of the seasons of the dramas/shows.

2. The season