Gujarat High Court
Jagdeepbhai Piyushkumar Choliya vs Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd on 21 April, 2026
NEUTRAL CITATION
C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
R/MISC. CIVIL APPLICATION (FOR RESTORATION) NO. 803 of 2026
In R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION/6481/2016
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JAGDEEPBHAI PIYUSHKUMAR CHOLIYA
Versus
MOTILAL OSWAL SECURITIES LTD
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Appearance:
MS TEJAL K SHAH(2719) for the Applicant(s) No. 1
MS DISHA N NANAVATY(2957) for the Opponent(s) No. 1
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CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MAULIK J.SHELAT
Date : 21/04/2026
ORAL ORDER
1. Heard Ms. Tejal K. Shah, learned Advocate for the applicant, and Ms. Disha N. Nanavaty, learned Advocate for the opponent.
2. The draft amendment is allowed, to be carried out forthwith.
3. The present application is filed seeking the restoration of Special Civil Application No. 6481 of 2016, which was dismissed for non-prosecution on 20.06.2025, wherein, the following has been observed:
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NEUTRAL CITATION C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026 undefined "1. Today, the priority was sought by the respondent in the matter.
2. When the matter was called out, none was present for the petitioner and learned advocates Ms.Disha N. Nanavati appearing for the respondent is present. This matter is of the year 2016, listed final hearing in old matters.
3. After going through the matter, prima facie, it appears that the present application is filed against the concurrent finding of the Appellate Court as well as the Small Causes Court to the effect that there was an arbitration agreement between the parties, whereby as per Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the matter is required to be decided by an arbitrator. The order sheet suggests that due to the stay granted by this Court, no progress has been made so far in the matter.
4. In the absence of the learned advocate for the petitioner, it would not be appropriate for this Court to hear and decide the matter ex parte. So, there is no option left but to dismiss the matter for non-prosecution.
5. Thus, the matter is dismissed for default for non-prosecution.
Interim relief granted earlier stands vacated forthwith. No order as to costs."
4. There is a delay of around 162 days in filing the restoration application. As such, no sufficient cause is made out by the applicant seeking condonation of delay of 162 days in filing the restoration application, except the fact narrated that earlier in point of time, the applicant had filed one restoration Page 2 of 6 Uploaded by MR. NILESHKUMAR RAMESHBHAI PARMAR(HCD0068) on Tue Apr 21 2026 Downloaded on : Tue Apr 21 23:58:33 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026 undefined application being F/MCA/22975 of 2025, but the same was dismissed as the applicant did not remove the office objection. It appears that there was no liberty reserved for filing a fresh restoration application, but such wrong statement has been made by the applicant in paragraph No. 3 of the application.
5. Ms. Shah, learned Advocate for the applicant, would request this Court that considering the facts and circumstances, and as there was no mala fide intention on the part of the applicant to not file the restoration application in time, this Court may take lenient view with reasonable cost and the prayers made in this application may be allowed.
6. Per contra, Ms. Nanavaty, learned Advocate for the opponent, would vehemently oppose this application contending inter alia that despite granting a reasonable opportunity to the applicant- original petitioner, he did not attend the proceedings seriously, which ultimately resulted into its dismissal. It is submitted that in the cognate writ petition being SCA No. 6482 of 2016 filed by other similarly situated petitioner against the opponent herein came to be dismissed by this Court on 19.09.2025. It is further submitted that no sufficient cause is made out by the Page 3 of 6 Uploaded by MR. NILESHKUMAR RAMESHBHAI PARMAR(HCD0068) on Tue Apr 21 2026 Downloaded on : Tue Apr 21 23:58:33 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026 undefined applicant in filing the application and the delay in filing the restoration application is nothing but direct tactic on the part of the applicant, which may not be entertained by this Court.
7. Having heard the learned Advocates appearing for the respective parties and upon perusal of the application, it appears that a wrong statement has been made by the applicant in paragraph No. 3 of this application that in the earlier restoration application which was dismissed for non-removal of office objections, at that time, no liberty was reserved in favour of the applicant to file a fresh application, inasmuch as this Court's order dated 04.09.2025 only granted time to remove office objections to applicant and other applicants and as such no liberty reserved. The aforesaid order dated 04.09.2025 passed by this Court reads thus:
"Office objections to be removed on or before 01/10/2025, failing which the matters will stand dismissed for default without reference to the Court."
8. Apart from the wrong statement made by the applicant, there is no explanation worth name submitted by applicant to make out any sufficient cause in filing the restoration application after period of 162 days. When there is no sufficient cause Page 4 of 6 Uploaded by MR. NILESHKUMAR RAMESHBHAI PARMAR(HCD0068) on Tue Apr 21 2026 Downloaded on : Tue Apr 21 23:58:33 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026 undefined made out by applicant, this Court would not like to entertain such type of application.
9. Lastly, it would not be out of place to mention that the main petition being Special Civil Application No. 6481 of 2016 was listed with Special Civil Application No. 6482 of 2016 and both were dismissed for non-prosecution on 28.06.2025. The petitioner of Special Civil Application No. 6482 of 2016 got his petition restored back on its file and the same was adjudicated by this Court on merits on 19.09.2025. Whereas, the reason best known to the applicant herein, he chooses to file the application after the roster of this Court got changed. It is pertinent to observe that due to prevailing rules of this Court, upon dismissing the matter for default and roster change, this Court would not be in a position to take up the main matter, thereby, in a given case, the main matter gets restored back on its file, this Court would not be in a position to decide the lis between the parties on merits and eventually, the litigant will avoid the hearing of the matter before the Court concerned.
10. Having considered all these aspects taken into account, according to my view, no case is made out by the applicant to Page 5 of 6 Uploaded by MR. NILESHKUMAR RAMESHBHAI PARMAR(HCD0068) on Tue Apr 21 2026 Downloaded on : Tue Apr 21 23:58:33 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION C/MCA/803/2026 ORDER DATED: 21/04/2026 undefined interfere with the order passed by this Court on 28.06.2025.
11. Accordingly the present application lacks merits and requires to be rejected, which is hereby rejected. There shall be no order as to costs.
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