N. Kirubakaran, J.

The Courts are here to render justice. The finality of proceedings, at the earliest, is a necessity and multiplicity of the proceedings should be avoided. Whether the Courts have control over the proceedings or the parties are controlling the proceedings is an aspect to be gone into. The way in which a dispute comes to the Court and gets multiplied into many proceedings at various stages of the judicial hierarchy would speak volumes about the role of various stakeholders of the justice delivery system. The litigants, the lawyers and the Courts are part and parcel of justice delivery system. Without the assistance of one stakeholder, the justice delivery system cannot function in an orderly and in an effective manner. Without the cooperation of everyone, the litigation cannot come to a finality. Otherwise, a case would lead to many proceedings burdening the justice delivery system by increasing the pendency of cases. Therefore, it should be everybody’s endeavour to reduce and restrict the number of cases and also avoid multiplicity of proceedings. The manner in which the present case has been dealt with, for the past two decades, would demonstrate as to how