Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 19 · Decided 4 February 1980
Jolly George Verghese & ANR. v. The Bank of Cochin
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 19 · [1980] 2 S.C.R. 913
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1991/1979
- Decided
- 4 February 1980
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 51; Constitution
Headnote
913 Code of Civil Procedure-Section 51, Ordet 21, rule 37-Scope of-' Debtor, if could be imprisoned for failure to pay his deb,/~lmprisonment M•hen could be ordered. The appellants were the judgment.debtors while the respondent-bank Wes the decree·holder. In eixecution of the decree a 51 and order 21, rule 37 of the Code of Civil Procedure. On an earlier occa.sion there had been a simi· Jar warrant for arrest in execution of the same decree. The decree-holders also proceeded against the properties of the judgment-debtors and in consequence all their immovable
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