IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/FIRST APPEAL NO. 3198 of 2011 ==========================================================

OIL & NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD.

Versus PRAJAPATI KANUBHAI BABABHAI ==========================================================

Appearance:

MR AJAY R MEHTA(453) for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR AV PRAJAPATI(672) for the Defendant(s) No. 1 ==========================================================

CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE J. C. DOSHI Date : 01/05/2026

ORDER

1. The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Mehsana Project (‘the ONGC’, for short), the appellant herein, has filed this appeal under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (‘the Code’, for short) against the judgment and decree dated 30.11.2010 passed in Special Civil Suit No.336 of 2000 by the learned 2^nd Additional Senior Civil Judge, Mehsana whereby the suit of the plaintiff was partly allowed and the ONGC was directed to pay damage of Rs.2,75,000/- (Rupees Two Lakhs Seventy Five Thousand only) to the plaintiff from the date of the filing of the suit till its realisation.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their original status before the trial Court.

3. The br