Maintenance and welfare of Parent and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, Section 23 -- Property of senior citizen - Eviction of son and daughter-in-law - Respondents/senior citizens are admittedly owners of property in question - Though, appellants stated that they had contributed funds for purchase of property in question and construction thereon, however, nothing is on record to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307 -- Murder - Testimony of eye witnesses - Prosecution failed to prove that alleged eye witnesses had witnessed accused assaulting deceased - Names of alleged eye witnesses were not mentioned in written report - Police statement of PW6, PW7, PW8 were recorded after delay of 20 days of incident - No reason for recording their..........
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..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 1 -- Written statement - Not filed within time - Extension of time - No restriction in O.8.R.1 CPC that after expiry of 90 days, further time cannot be granted - Court is having wide power to extend period of filing written statement, however, order cannot be made in a routine manner...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 1 -- Written statement - Not filed within time - Reason given for not filing written statement in time is that lawyer was not well - However, no supporting documents have been brought before Court - More so, earlier applications filed to accept written statements were dismissed and court below rightly held that application is..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Amendment sought does not alter the nature of suit - Issues in main suit are yet to be framed and suit was at the stage of filing written statement - Allowing amendment even before filing of written statement would not have any adverse effect on defence set up by defendants - Application rightly allowed...........
Recovery suit -- Defendant was set ex parte - Only defence raised by defendant in written statement was that document admitting outstanding amount was not executed by an authorised person - However, apart from said document plaintiff has placed on record relevant invoices - Ledger statement relating to defendant shows a closing balance of Rs.2,21,40,895 - Memorandum of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of pleadings - At the stage of consideration of application for amendment in pleading, merits of proposed amendment are not required to be delved into - More liberal approach is warranted where defendant seeks amendment in written statement as potentiality of prejudice to plaintiff is relatively less - Defendant is..........
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 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of written statement - Only reason sought to be ascribed for seeking amendment in written statement is that advocate who filed said application was recently engaged by defendant no.2 and after perusal of record and pleadings, he realised that certain amendments in written statement were required - However,..........
