Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 333 · Decided 16 April 2024
Arcadia Shipping LTD. v. Tata Steel Limited and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 333 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 404
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5599/2024
- Decided
- 16 April 2024
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, DIPANKAR DATTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 20(c), 1, 3, 7
Headnote
Whether the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court was correct in setting aside the finding of the Single Judge that the Delhi High Court has no territorial jurisdiction. Territorial Jurisdiction - Suit by Bhushan Steel & Strips Ltd. (now Tata Steel 20(c) of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Scope of, Explained. Held: Section 20(c) of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 accords dominus litis to the plaintiff to institute a suit within local limits of whose jurisdiction the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises - Situs of the cause
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