Litigant Cannot Seek Repeated Adjournments and Then Blame Lawyer for Delay: Gauhati High Court

The Gauhati High Court has ruled that litigants cannot repeatedly seek adjournments during the course of a civil case and later shift the entire responsibility for delay onto their advocate. The Court clarified that although courts have discretionary powers to condone procedural delays in deserving cases, such powers cannot be exercised mechanically where a party has repeatedly failed to act diligently. Facts of the Case The matter arose from a…