Justice. Micheal F.Saldanha (Retd.) vs Sri. M.P. Noronha (Melwyn Prakash ... on 23 August, 2016
11. Placing reliance on paragraph No.7 of the
judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of
Sandeep Thapar v. SME Technologies Private
Limited reported in (2014) 2 SCC 302, he submitted
that Order VIII Rule 1 CPC is directory in nature and
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therefore the power of the Court to extend time to file
written statement beyond the prescribed period
provided therein is not completely taken away.