B. Ramalinga Raju vs. Price Waterhouse

COURT NO.15

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) Diary No(s).37739/2023

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 14-03-2023 in CRP No.7522/2018 passed by the High Court for The State of Telangana at Hyderabad)

B. RAMALINGA RAJU

Petitioner(s)

Respondent $(s)$

VERSUS

PRICE WATERHOUSE PARTNER & ORS.

(IA No.194471/2023-CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING)

Date: 12-12-2023 This petition was called on for hearing today.

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE BELA M. TRIVEDI CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA

For Petitioner(s) M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co., AOR Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv. Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv. Mr. Lakshmi Shankar, Adv. Mr. Tushar Singh, Adv.

For Respondent(s)

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

1. Delay condoned.

After having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner 2. and having gone through the impugned order, we are not inclined to interfere with the same. However, the petitioner-defendant shall be at liberty to request the concerned Trial Court to decide the issue with regard to Section 69 of the Partnership Act, 1932, as a preliminary issue, and if any such prayer is gita signed by $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ $\mathbf{A}$ the same shall be considered by the Trial Court in $9.46 \overline{IS}$ accordance with law.

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3. The Special Leave Petition is, accordingly, dismissed, subject to the said observations.

4. Pending applications, if any, shall stand disposed of.

(RAVI ARORA) (MAMTA RAWAT)

COURT MASTER (SH) COURT MASTER (NSH)