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The merits of the instant application are required to be decided within the four corners of the Code of Civil Procedure. The Court has power to reject a plaint under Order 7 Rule 11 and also under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Even if the application does not bear the nomenclature of Order 7 Rule 11 and Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Court on a meaningful reading of the plaint is required to find out if the grounds stated in the plaint calls for dismissal of the suit. Apart from the aforesaid provision, the Court can also exercise its power in striking out pleadings if it appears to the Court that any part of the pleading is unnecessary, frivolous, vexatious or which is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court. The instance of an abuse of the process of Court would cover matters where there is a suppression of material fact as on the date of institution of the proceeding or in a case where a party is relitigating the same issue which has been tried and decided earlier against him. The re-agitation may or may not be barred under res judicata. But if the same issue is sought to be re-agitated, it also amounts to an abuse of the process of the Court. A proceeding being filed for a collateral purpose, or a spurious claim being made in litigation may also in a given set of facts amount to an abuse of the process of the Court. Frivolous or vexatious proceedings may also amount to an abuse of the process of the Court especially where the proceedings are absolutely groundless. The Court then has the power to stop such proceedings summarily and prevent the time of the public and the Court from being wasted. This principle has been enunciated in K.K. Modi Vs. K.N. Modi & Ors. reported at 1998 (3) SCC 573. However, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has sounded a note of caution by observing that it is a matter of Court's discretion whether such proceedings should be stopped or not and this discretion has to be exercised with circumspection. It is a jurisdiction which should be sparingly exercised, and exercised only in special cases. The Court should also be satisfied that there is no chance of the suit succeeding.