Delhi High Court Sets Aside Lower Court Order Rejecting Plaint In Dr. Mahender Prasad’s Estate Dispute

In a significant judgment, the Delhi High Court has set aside an order by a Single Judge that had rejected a plaint filed by the legal heirs of Smt. Satula Devi, the wife of late Dr. Mahender Prasad, a former Member of Parliament. The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar held that a plaint cannot be rejected in part and that a court must take a “holistic and pragmatic” view of the entire pleading, rather than focusing on isolated prayers.