Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 1, Rule 10 -- Impleadment of Power of Attorney holder as a party - Power of attorney holder can conduct proceedings but cannot be impleaded as a party or substitute plaintiff - He can appear only as a witness in his personal capacity and there are provisions under CPC for recording evidence on issuance of commission - Order impleading..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 5, Rule 17, 19 -- Service of summons - In order to accept service as valid service particularly, when report is to the effect that respondent refused to accept summons then, it become duty of Court to examine Process Serving Officer if his report is not on affidavit - Even if Process Serving Officer gives his report on affidavit,..........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226(3) -- Interim order of status quo - Application to vacate - Provision of Art.226(3) mandates that High Court to dispose of the same within a period of two weeks...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Writ appeal - Locus standi - Person aggrieved having locus standi to prefer an appeal would be one who is directly affected or impacted by a judgment, order or decision even though same does not directly require him to do something or one who being a party to a suit, is adversely affected by decree - To file an appeal such a..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 26 -- Stay of execution - Ex parte decree - Recovery suit - Execution of ex parte decree was stayed with condition of furnishing security/bank guarantee equal to decreetal amount - Said order has sufficiently secured interest of plaintiff against any uncertainty regarding recovery of decreetal amount - Imposition of such condition..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 156(3), Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 19 -- Complaint filed before Special Judge under Prevention of Corruption Act - Direction to police for investigation - Special Judge has no power to order an investigation u/s 156(3) Cr.P.C. - Impugned order set aside - Complainant relegated back to pre cognizance stage -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 22, Rule 3, 4 -- Abatement of suit - Non-substitution of LRs - Before declaring a suit or proceeding to have abated on ground of non-substitution of heirs/LRs of a deceased party, Court must examine whether interest of deceased party qua subject matter of proceeding is sufficiently represented by other parties already on record - If..........
Consumer Protection Act, 2019, Section 71 -- Execution - Order allowing consumer complaints - Execution proceedings cannot be permitted to continue indirectly against respondents who are neither judgment debtors nor guarantors and against whom no independent liability under the order allowing complaints has been established...........
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Section 138, 148 -- Dishonour of cheque - Order to deposit 20% of compensation amount - Mere fact that petitioner is suffering from hypertension and chronic kidney diseases cannot be said to be a ground sufficient enough for carving out an exception from mandate contained in S.148 of the Act...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Eviction petition originally filed by competent person in his own right and on behalf of his minor daughter - Subsequent death of said person did not render eviction petition void or non est - Application U.O.7.R.11 CPC could not succeed merely on the ground that for a limited period minor petitioner was..........
