Supreme Court of India
Basant Singh and Anr. v. Roman Catholic Mission
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the publication of the substituted service in the local daily "Aacharan" instead of "Dainik Bhaskar" is a mere irregularity in service of summons.
Judgment, page 4
From the headnote
Civil Pr.ocedure Code, 1908: Order 5 Second proviso to Rule 19A and Order; 9 R11le I 3: Substituted Service-Trial Court directed substituted service by ordering publication of summons in a certain local daily newspaper-Publication of summons in another local daily-Effect of-Held, it amounts to mere irregularity in service of summons-However, it is inherently probable that publication of summons in another local daily with wide circulation in the area would have constituted sufficient notice to the defendants. Service of Notice-Proof of-Presumption-Discussed--General Clauses Act, 1897: Section
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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