First Schedule — Order XXVII-A: Suits Involving a Substantial Question of Law as to the Interpretation of the Constitution or as to the Validity of any Statutory Instrument

Order 27A Rule 2 — Court may add Government as party

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

The Court may at any stage of the proceedings order that the Central Government or a State Government shall be added as a defendant in any suit involving [any such question as is referred to [in clause (1) of Article 132 read with Article 147, of the Constitution]], if [the Attorney General for India] or the Advocate-General of the State, as the case may be, whether upon receipt of notice under rule 1, or otherwise, applies for such addition and the Court is satisfied that such addition is necessary or desirable for the satisfactory determination of the question of law involved.