Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 608 · Decided 25 August 2015
Banwari Lal (D) BY LRS. &ANR. v. Balbir Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 608 · [2015] 14 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6567/2015
- Decided
- 25 August 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
A B Code of Civil Procedure, 1908..: Or. XX/{ - Manner in which the legal representatives of plaintiffs or defendants ought to be brought on record - Held: Rules of procedure C under Order XX/I CPC are designed to advance justice and · . should be so interpreted as not to make them penal cause, delay in bringing the legal representatives of the deceased party on record should be condoned - Procedure is meant only to D facilitate the administration of justice and not to defeat the same. Sardar Amarjit Singh Ka/ra v. Pramod Gupta (2003) 3 sec 212 : 2002 (5) Suppl. scR 350;
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