The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad has dismissed a petition seeking to quash rent proceedings where a deceased person was initially impleaded as a respondent. The High Court observed that procedural defects, if occasioned by a bona fide mistake and subsequently corrected, should not defeat an adjudication on the merits of the case. The
Technical Defects Cannot Defeat Eviction Proceedings Once Legal Heirs Are Brought on Record: Allahabad HC
