CUTTACK, India, March 26 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on Feb. 23:

1. Petitioner-husband is before this Court making the following prayer in the petition : "It is therefore, prayed that the Hon'ble Court may graciously be pleased to:-

(i) Admit the writ application;

(ii) Call for the records;

(iii) Issue a writ of mandamus in directing the Learned Judge, Family Court, Bhadrak to expedite the hearing and dispose of the matrimonial proceeding being C.P. Case No.219 of 2021 within a stipulated period;

And pass such other writ/writs, order/orders, direction/directions as may be deemed fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case;"

2. Though the matter is listed for fresh admission, in view of the judgment that is going to be passed in the facts and circumstances of the case, no notice is issued to the opposite party-wife in the marriage. This Court is also of the view that the judgment that is being passed, would be no way prejudicial to either of the parties to the present writ petition.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner refers to the copy of the order sheet in C.P. No. 219 of 2021 annexed to the writ application C.P. has been filed under section 13 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 by the petitioner-husband seeking dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce from the opposite party-wife in the marriage, to submit that the opposite party is seeking unnecessary adjournments and the proceeding is getting prolonged.

4. On being asked whether the petitioner had ever filed any application before the learned Court in seisin indicating that the opposite party is taking unnecessary adjournment and if so what order was passed therein; learned counsel for the petitioner upon instruction submits that no such application has been filed by the petitioner.

5. In considered view of this Court, at the instance of a particular litigant, a Civil Proceeding cannot be expedited when hundreds of cases are pending before the selfsame Court for adjudication.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=I1mmm2bl4r4EREhYK63Kv1s66TwsADtSJw%2Fo75UaN%2FfVlJPvqbdOd%2FO48JA7K32e&caseno=WP(C)/8811/2026&cCode=1&cino=ODHC010206412026&state_code=11&appFlag=)

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