Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Plaintiff by way of amendment challenged the judgment and decree as well as mutation - Said judgment and decree and mutation were within his knowledge, rather factum of same finds mentioned in plaint itself - Amendment would change nature of suit and would amount to a de novo trial as even though..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 11, Rule 5(4), 21 -- Production of document - Non-compliance with order - Striking off the defence can never mean striking off cross examination...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to mother - Defence of son that there are other children to maintain mother and therefore he need not pay maintenance is not tenable in a petition filed u/s 125 Cr.P.C by mother against her son - Even if other children are not maintaining or even if they are taking any negative attitude, it is duty of son to look..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 8, Rule 1 -- Written statement - Not filed within time - Denying a party opportunity to place their defence on record risks compromising the very foundation of a fair adjudication and may result in erroneous or one-sided findings - Moreover, such delay could have been addressed through imposition of appropriate costs -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 1 -- Written statement - Not filed within time - Striking off defence - Suit for recovery - Injustice would be occasioned to defendant if he is not granted one opportunity to file his written statement - One opportunity is thus, granted to defendant to file written statement subject to payment of costs of Rs.10,000/-...........
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...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304(Part II) -- Appellant after setting deceased on fire, took the children out of house and had latched the door from outside when deceased was still burning inside - He prevented anybody else to help deceased - Evidence in the form of two dying declarations of deceased and direct evidence of daughter of appellant corroborates the..........
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 - 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..........
Practice and Procedure -- Defendant can disprove the case of plaintiff not only on his defence but also by proving improbability of plaintiff's case - He can even rely upon evidence of plaintiff and disprove his case...........
