Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 352 · Decided 30 April 2024
Swami Vedvyasanand Ji Maharaj (D) THR LRS v. Shyam Lal Chauhan & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 352 · [2024] 5 S.C.R. 462
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5569/2024
- Decided
- 30 April 2024
- Bench
- A.S. BOPANNA, SUDHANSHU DHULIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Whether the High Court, while substituting Respondent No.6 as the appellant in the Second Appeal, has followed the correct procedure prescribed under Order XXII Rule 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Code of Civil Procedure - Order XXII Rule 5 - Substitution gives the right to the substituted legal representatives to contest the claim of the deceased. Held: The only purpose of substitution is the continuation of the case - The substitution as LR in a case by itself will not give any title in favour of the person so
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