HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
POONAWALLAFINCORP LTD – Appellant
Versus
HAWK SECURITY SERVICE – Respondent
Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings SL.
Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS No.
and Registrar’s order with Signatures WPMS No. 686 of 2026 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J.
1. Ms. Menka Tripathi, learned counsel for the petitioner.
2. The petitioner in the instant writ petition is praying for the following reliefs:
i. Issue a direction or order to the Ld. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun, to decide and dispose of the Securitisation application no. 342/2025 under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act in the matter of Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd. vs. Hawk Security Service & Ors. (Annexure No. 1) within a stipulated period, preferably within one month.
3. The relief as sought appears to be innocuous.
4. Ms. Menka Tripathi, learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that the application under section 14 of the SARFAESI Act has to be decided within 60 days but in this particular application was filed in September, 2025 and almost six months have been passed but the same is still pending for consideration before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun.
5. Section 14 of the Securitisation Act is read as under:
“14. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate or District Magistrate to assist secured
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