Supreme Court of India

Sumesh Singh v. Phoolan Devi & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 5 S.C.R. 996
Bench S.B. Sinha and P. Sathasivam JJ.
Decided 15 April 2009

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: Order 6 r. 17 - Amendment of pleadings - Permissibility of - Held: Not 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 - Application for amendment of written statement allowed - 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

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