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..........
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 18A -- Preliminary enquiry - Provision bars any form of preliminary enquiry before registration of FIR where complaint discloses a cognizable offence under the Act - Consequently, subsequent action of police based on such direction stands vitiated and is unsustainable in law...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 100 -- Second appeal - Suit for declaration that cheque and other documents are null and void - Trial Court based on FIR registered by plaintiff against defendant has straightaway taking version pleaded by plaintiff as conclusive proof decreed the suit without considering fact that FIR was registered based on statement given by plaintiff..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Cause of action - Prima facie respondent/wife has put forth bundle of material facts in plaint in support of her relief for division of properties and therefore, wife established cause of action for filing the suit - Cause of action pleaded by wife in plaint is not solely based on judgment passed by..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Suit for cancellation of sale deed and for perpetual injunction - Specific case of plaintiff is that defendant had obtained sale deed under coercion and by playing fraud and misrepresentation and no sale consideration has been paid to him - Cause of action is mixed question of facts and law and aspect of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Death by burning - 100% burn injury - Conviction - Appreciation of evidence - Prosecution failed to examine the attending doctor of deceased to prove her mental condition at time of giving the dying declaration - Further, nothing on record, including the dying declaration, suggested that accused instigated or..........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138(b) -- Dishonour of cheque - Demand notice - Letter issued by complainant informing about dishonour of cheque and request to give said amount immediately or complainant will have no option taking legal action against petitioner, cannot be construed as a demand notice as contemplated u/s 138(b) of the Act...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13, Limitation Act, 1963, Section 5 -- Ex parte decree - Setting aside - Condonation of delay - Defendant has not only failed to show sufficient cause for his prolonged absence before trial Court but has also approached High Court after exhausting two rounds of adjudication both trial Court and revisional Court having concurrently..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Prayer for amendment of plaint and prayer for amendment of written statement stand on different footings - Addition of a new ground of defence or substituting or altering a defence or taking inconsistent pleas in written statement would not be objectionable - Whereas adding, altering or substituting a..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Plaint cannot be rejected in its entirety merely because one of prayers or reliefs sought is legally untenable so long other reliefs are maintainable and based on independent causes of action...........
