Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Mandatory Injunction | Courts Cannot Award Compensation Without Express Prayer for It : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that monetary compensation cannot be substituted for a mandatory injunction when the plaintiff has not prayed for it, reinforcing that judicial relief must strictly adhere to pleaded claims. This upholds the foundational principle of party autonomy in civil litigation and prevents courts from rewriting pleadings under the guise of equitable remedies.