Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 9, Rule 7 -- Ex parte order - Setting aside - Petitioner was served with summons in the suit and he had made appearance through his counsel in 2016 - Thereafter, there is failure to file written statement and petitioner was set ex parte - Petitioner had an opportunity to file written statement after receiving summons in suit..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 1(10), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 14 -- Production of additional documents - Commercial dispute - Financial statements that defendants want to place reliance upon were not disclosed at the time of filing written statement in Oct 2022 - Explanation that audited financial statements were concluded only in Dec 2023 was..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Suit is at a primary stage - No new relief has been sought and only nature of suit property would be changed to some extent, but it is not the fact that there would be complete overhauling of plaint - When suit is at its initial stage and defendants have all the opportunities available to rebut the..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Suit for specific performance - Suit is at its final stage and is fixed for arguments - Nothing substantial was being sought to be incorporated by way of amendment - There is no merit in the application - Application rightly dismissed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Written statement - Amendment - A defendant who has not filed written statement but has adopted written statement filed by another defendant has no right to seek amendment of written statement not filed by him...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - An individual plaintiff or an individual defendant cannot seek to amend plaint or written statement filed jointly...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - Amendment of joint plaint or joint written statement - Application for amendment has to be filed by all the plaintiffs or all the defendants, who have filed said pleadings jointly...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Additional evidence - Evidence in question came on record during course of evidence led by defendant - There was no occasion for plaintiff to have led evidence in affirmative in the absence of any pleadings in written statement - Once said evidence was produced by defendant, plaintiff was well within his rights to lead additional..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - In an application filed U.O.7.R.11 CPC, Court cannot consider the contentions raised in written statement - If plaint discloses a cause of action, Court cannot reject it - If a plain reading of plaint it is found that suit is vexatious and meritless, it can be rejected - Averments in the plaint must be..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of matrimonial case - Wife sought transfer of divorce proceedings on the ground that she is financially dependent on her parents and therefore unable to pursue proceedings in Pune - She has been deliberately delaying the matter for over four years as recorded in 2024 and even remained absent for nearly seven months..........
