The Supreme Court has requested the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad to take up and dispose of a long-pending eviction revision on a priority basis, preferably within four months, citing prolonged pendency and the continued operation of interim protection.
A Bench of Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Prasanna B. Varale was hearing a Special Leave Petition filed by decree-holders whose eviction decree dates back to March 15, 2019. The petition arose from an Allahabad High Court order dated December 8, 2025, which had disposed of a listing application seeking priority hearing of S.C.C. Revision 45/2019 without assigning reasons.
The Court noted that the revision has remained pending since 2019 and has been listed several times without effective hearing, while interim protection continues to operate against the decree-holders. The Court observed that although regulation of the High Court’s cause list lies within its own domain, an application seeking priority in a matter pending for years and causing prejudice due to subsisting interim orders cannot be dealt with routinely.
Emphasising that interim orders are intended to be temporary and should not, by passage of time, assume the character of final relief, the Court said that even brief reasons must reflect application of mind when priority listing is sought. Without entering into the merits of the eviction dispute and noting the limited nature of the grievance, the Supreme Court disposed of the SLP without issuing notice to the respondents, requesting the High Court to decide the revision expeditiously.
Appearances:
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Arjun Jain, Adv.; Mr. Naman Choula, Adv.; Ms. Anushree Narain, AOR
For the Respondent: NA
