Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 533 · Decided 15 April 2009
Sumesh Singh v. Phoolan Devi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 533 · [2009] 5 S.C.R. 996
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2537/2009
- Decided
- 15 April 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 6, 16(2)(b)
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: Order 6 r. 17 - Amendment of pleadings - Permissibility of - Held: Not C permissible when party to the suit seeks to resile from his statement made in earlier part of proceedings - On facts, amendment of plaint allowed by trial Court, which was not challenged - - Revision petition by plaintiff - Dismissed - On o appeal, Held: High Court did not err in holding that defendant had right to file amended written statement to the amended plaint. Pending suit, plaintiff filed an application for amendment of plaint which was allowed. Thereafter, E
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