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…Although dealing with service under rule 15, the Court was emphatic that there being no personal service and the advertisement in the gazette being out of time, the proceedings were a nullity.…

…Failure to serve within the stipulated 10 days renders any consequential proceedings a nullity. In our view the subrule is complete and positively states what to be done by who, on who and in which time span.…

…That on expiry of the 28 days before service, the petition ceased to be of any efficacy and thus became a nullity thereafter.…

…The Court was told that after 28 days in fact the petition itself became invalid and therefore a nullity that even serving it by any mode could not breathe life in it. That it could all be a futile exercise.…