Supreme Court of India

Mahabir Singh v. Subhash and Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 11 S.C.R. 436
Bench S.B. Sinha and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.
Decided 12 October 2007

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Limitation Act, 1963-Section 3 and Schedule Article 123- "f Limitation for filing application for setting aside ex-parte decree- c Non-appearance of defendant despite delivery of summons-Ex-parte decree-Application for setting aside the decree after its execution- Defendant admitting to the effect that he had knowledge of the decree one and half years prior to filing of application-Maintainability of the application-Held: Application was not maintainable-Defendant was unable to establish absence of service of summons-Application was also barred by limitation-Code of Civil Procedure, 1908-0r.

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