126 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CR-5878-2025 Date of Decision: 28.08.2025 RITESH KUMAR @ RITESH OBEROI ....Petitioner Versus OSWAL PREMIUM SYNTHETIC AND OTHERS .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PARMOD GOYAL Present: Mr. Rahul Verma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Vinay Gautam, Advocate and Mr. Rohit Gupta, Advocate for the respondents.

Parmod Goyal, J. (Oral)

The present petition has been preferred by defendant No.3, who is aggrieved by dismissal of his application under Order 9 Rule 13 CPC, seeking setting aside of the ex parte order dated 18.07.2018, passed against him.

2. Learned counsel for petitioner argued that no summons were ever served upon him, as petitioner was not found when the Process Server visited his house and that learned Court had not taken care of provisions of Order V Rule 17 and Rule 19 CPC, while passing the impugned order, that learned Court has wrongly imputed knowledge, merely because defendant Nos.1 and 2 are parents of defendant No.3-petitioner and there is no positive evidence led by plaintiff to show that defendant No.3 had knowledge of the proceedings.

3. On consideration, I find that none of the grounds taken by the p