New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has held that writ jurisdiction is extraordinary in nature and not intended to provide a forum for litigants to ventilate personal disputes.
The court found no merit in the petition and granted liberty to the petitioner to take appropriate recourse against the firm in accordance with the law. The court noted that the controversy substantially arises out of the petitioner’s dispute and longstanding grievances against the firm and, through this petition, he seemed to seek a direction for adjudication of a matter concerning his individual grievance against a private party. Because a litigant’s representation has not yielded the desired action, the high court pulled up a man for filing a writ petition over a personal dispute against a private firm, saying that the court’s jurisdiction cannot be invoked merely.
“The jurisdiction of this court thus cannot be invoked merely because a representation by a litigant has not yielded the action so desired,” Justice Mahajan said in an order passed on September 29.
