The Delhi commercial court's intervention underscores the sanctity of lock-in clauses and the irreversibility of mid-term contractual abandonment.
In a significant interim order passed on March 30, 2026, the district judge, New Delhi, granted an ad-interim injunction protecting the operator of RULO Pickleball and Padel, Panchshila Club, Delhi's most celebrated racquet sports destination — from being summarily evicted mid-way through a contractually protected lock-in period, just 48 hours before the defendant's self-imposed deadline to shut operations would have taken effect.
The case, Sumer Sethi Sole Proprietorship vs. Panchshila Co-Operative House Building Society Limited (CS COMM 166/26), offers a pointed reminder of how internal governance changes within cooperative societies can collide with existing commercial agreements, and why courts have consistently treated such collisions with caution.
