IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CR-9078-2025 (O&M)

Decided on : 08.12.2025 Des Raj & Anr. ……Petitioners Versus Dalbir Chand ……Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Present: Ms. Ayna Vasudeva, Advocate for the petitioner.

(through VC)

DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

The petitioners are defendants in Civil Suit No. CS-

311/2020 titled ‘Dalbir Chand v. Des Raj & Anr.’ pending before the learned Civil Judge (Jr. Divn.), Ludhiana. They challenge the order dated 21.11.2025 (Annexure P-1) by which the trial Court closed the evidence of DW-2 and DW-3 and declined to record their statement.

2. It is contended by Ld. Counsel that DW-2 and DW-3 were produced on 21.11.2025. At the time fixed by the Court, however, the petitioners’ counsel was engaged in proceedings before another Court and therefore, did not appear; the witnesses subsequently appeared but the trial Court did no record their evidence and closed the same. An application by the defendants on the same day seeking recall/recorder of the witnesses for the purpose of cross-examination was rejected on the ground that, in the trial Court’s view, the defendants had previously adopted delaying tactics.

3. No doubt that the