Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Counter claim though can be based on different cause of action than that are put forth in suit, it should be one incidental or connected with that cause of action...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Counter claim has necessarily to be directed against plaintiff and cannot be directed against co-defendant...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement-cum-counter claim - Amendment is with respect to events after disposal of suit by trial Court and after disposal of appeals by High Court - Therefore, it does not stand to reason that amendment ought to have been carried out prior to commencement of trial - Amendment rightly allowed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 14, Rule 5 -- Framing of additional issues - Issue regarding adultery on the part of husband sought by wife in divorce petition - Husband filed divorce petition on the ground of cruelty and adultery against wife - Wife neither instituted a petition for divorce nor filed any Counter Claim to that effect - Allegation of adulterous..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Restoration of suit dismissed as withdrawn - Suit was withdrawn with liberty to file afresh suit due to wrong advice of previous counsel as well as lack of legal knowledge of plaintiff - Plaintiff was not aware that she will have to deposit Court fee again if suit is to be filed afresh - Since counter claim filed by defendant in..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Defendant cannot claim counter claim solely against co-defendant...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Defendant as per O.8.R.6-A(1) CPC may assert any right or claim against plaintiff before filing of written statement, even if such cause of action is unrelated to plaintiff's suit - Only limitation is that counter-claim must lie within pecuniary jurisdiction of Court...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6C, Commercial Courts Act, 2016, Section 12A -- Counter claim - Rejection of counter claim sought on the ground that pre-institution mediation has not taken place qua counter claim - Both the parties have already meditated and have failed in such mediation - Once pre-institution mediation has happened, when plaintiff wanted to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Counter claim filed on basis of cause of action arisen after filing of plaint is not permissible...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 6A -- Counter claim - Barred by limitation - Counter claim has been filed for cause of action arose much before filing of suit but knowledge of defendant accrues from plaint itself - Trial Court accepted written statement but on account of deficient Court fees permitted defendant to pay deficit Court fees and allowed prayer of..........
