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5. The Trial Court has dismissed the said application on various grounds. In this context, without going into the details of the grounds urged therein, it is worth to refer herein the decision of the Apex Court in the case of M/S. BABBAR SEWING MACHINE CO. VS TIRLOK NATH MAHAJAN - AIR 1978 SC 1436, wherein the Apex Court has made the following observation exactly on the point under Order XI Rule 21 CPC, which reads as under:

"An order striking out the defence under O.11, R.21 should be made unless there has been obstinacy or contumacy on the part of the defendant or willful attempt to disregard the order of the court, to produce the documents. Even assuming that in certain circumstances the provisions of O.11, R.21 must be strictly enforced, it does not follow that a suit can be lightly thrown out or a defence struck out, without adequate reasons. The test laid down is whether the default is willful. In the case of a plaintiff, it entails in the dismissal of the suit and, therefore, an order for dismissal ought not be made under O.11, R.21, unless the court is satisfied that the plaintiff was willfully withholding information by refusing to answer interrogatories or by withholding the documents which he ought to discover. In such an event, the plaintiff must take the consequence of having his claim dismissed due to his default, i.e., by suppression of information which he was bound to give. In the case of the defendant, he is visited with the penalty that his defence is ......"