Ms. Gurbir Kaur Chadha vs Sh. Naginder Pal Singh Lamba on 19 July, 2013
"The provision of Order II, rule 2 is based
on the principle that no person should be
vexed twice for the same cause of action.
The rule provides that every suit shall
include the whole of the claim and the
reliefs, which the plaintiff is entitled to
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make in respect of the cause of action. If he
falls to do so, afterwards, he will not be
entitled to sue for the portion of the claim
or the relief so omitted. However, if there
are different causes of actions arising even
out of the same transaction, the plaintiff is
not obliged to bring suit with regard to all if
them. Similarly, when the cause of action
on the basis of which the earlier suit was
brought, does not form foundation of the
subsequent suit and in the earlier suit the
said relief would not have been claimed
which have been claimed in the subsequent
suit, the subsequent suit is not barred under
the said provisions; Ramesh Kumar Bhatia
v. Lalit Kumar Bhatia, AIR 201 Pat 174."