Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 16, Rule 21 -- Witness - Same witness for both the parties - Witness scribed two Wills, one in favour of plaintiff and other in favour of defendant - Scribe can be examined independently by plaintiff and defendant...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3, 4, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13 -- Recording of evidence through video conferencing - Divorce proceedings - Wife defending suit through her mother in whose favour she executed power of attorney - Evidence of wife's mother and power of attorney holder has already been recorded as PW1 - Wife has not appeared before trial..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 17 -- Recall of witness - Court may recall a witness, if party seeking recalling of a witness, comes across some evidence which he could not lay his hands at the time the witness was being examined and said witness needs to be confronted therewith...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 16, Rule 14 -- Court witness - Court is not obligated to invoke power U.O.16.R.14 CPC at the instance of parties and parties have no right to move an application under said rule - However, either of parties can bring to notice of Court the necessity for examining any person as Court witness - If Court is satisfied about such a necessity to..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 3, Rule 2 -- Permission sought to lead evidence through husband and special power of attorney - Assessment of evidence cannot be done at the stage of consideration of application filed U.O.3.R.2 CPC - It is only after the evidence is led and witness is cross examined that Court has to assess whether the person, who has deposed..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3A -- More than one party - Law does not prohibit more than one party to a suit or proceeding to be examined as witness...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3A -- Party as its own witness - O.18.R.3-A CPC does not specify of order in which parties to a suit or proceeding shall be examined...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 6, Rule 17 -- Amendment of plaint - Commencement of trial - No witness has yet been examined - Findings of trial Court that amendment cannot be allowed, as same was filed after commencement of trial not sustainable - Observation of trial Court that pleadings in plaint sufficient to determine the question in controversy is without any basis..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 13, Rule 1(3) -- Cross examination of the witness - Provision of O.13.R.1(3) CPC would apply when witness of the party is being cross examined and not when the party i.e. plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, is being cross examined. (2014(Suppl.) Civil Court Cases 311 (Rajasthan) followed...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Giving up witness after tendering his affidavit of examination-in-chief - Merely because affidavit is tendered in evidence does not mean that witness has to be cross examined - Plaintiff is dominus litis - Defendant cannot insist that plaintiff should examine such a witness - Order allowing giving up witness, upheld...........
