New Delhi, May 8 -- The Delhi high court has observed that merely alleging that a decree is erroneous does not render it void or non-executable.

"What is to be determined is only whether the decree in question has been passed by a court lacking inherent jurisdiction, or is otherwise a nullity rendering it non-est, and thus non-executable. Mere allegations to the erroneous nature of the decree cannot render the decree a nullity," a bench of justices Nitin Sambre and Ajay Digpaul held in a verdict released on May 7.

The observation came on April 28 while the court was hearing an appeal filed by a man against a September 2025 trial court order dismissing his objections to an execution petition filed by Jaskaran Singh Batra, proprietor of B...