Part IV — Suits In Particular Cases Suits By Or Against The Government Or Public Officers In Their Official Capacity

Section 79 — Suits by or against Government

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

[79. Suits by or against Government. --In a suit by or against the Government, the authority to be named as plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, shall be

(a) in the case of a suit by or against the Central Government, [the Union of India], and

(b) in the case of a suit by or against a State Government, the State.]