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 2A — Power of Court to add Government or other authority as a defendant in a suit relating to the validity of any statutory instrument
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read
The Court may, at any stage of the proceedings in any suit involving any such question as is referred to in rule 1A, order that the Government or other authority shall be added as a defendant if the Government pleader or the pleader appearing in the case for the authority which issued the instrument, as the case may be, whether upon receipt of notice under rule lA 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.