Supreme Court Asks Allahabad HC To Prioritise Disposal Of Matters Where Trial Is Stayed, Especially Landlord-Tenant Disputes

The Supreme Court recently urged the Allahabad High Court to prioritise the disposal of appeals/revisions/original petitions, where the trial has been stayed, particularly of landlord-tenant disputes.

The Court asked the High Court to give out of turn hearing to such matters where the trial has been stayed.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice KV Viswanathan passed the direction while dealing with a matter, where the landlord pointed out that due to the High Court's stay, the eviction proceedings against the tenant got stalled. The petitioner therefore sought for an expeditious hearing of the matter.

Noting that stay of trial proceedings will delay the conclusion of the matter, the Court passed a general direction to the High Court to give priority to such matters.

The Court observed :

"Although, we are mindful of the fact that there may be hundred of petitions pending before the High Court nevertheless, we are constrained to observe that where the High Court has stayed the trial in cases, particularly, pending between landlord and tenant, those cases must be heard expeditiously inasmuch as the stay of the trial or the original proceedings would inevitably, lead to delay in the conclusion of the trial and the entire proceedings thereafter.

In the circumstances, we are constrained to observe that the High Court may take note of the aforesaid observations and endeavour to dispose of those cases where trial of the cases have been stayed by the High Court by hearing those cases out of turn and as expeditiously as possible and obviously, in accordance with law."

The Court directed that a copy of the order be placed before the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.

Case : Rajat Gaera vs Tarun Rawat

Citation : 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 490

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