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Hari Shanker Jain vs Sonia Gandhi on 12 September, 2001

"While dealing with the similar question, the Supreme Court in the case of Hari Shanker Jain v. Sonia Gandhi, MANU/SC/0551/2001 : AIR2001SC3689 held that under Section 57(1) of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the Courts in India are required to take judicial notice of, inter alia, all laws in force in the territory of India. Foreign laws are not included therein. Under Order 6 Rule 2 of C.P.C., every pleading shall contain a statement in concise form of the material facts relied on by a party but not the evidence nor the law of which a Court may take judicial notice. But the rule against pleading law is restricted to that law only of which a Court is bound to take judicial notice. As the Court does not take judicial notice of foreign law, it should be ::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 19:37:41 ::: 30/36 ARBP-174.12.sxw pleaded like any other fact, if a party wants to rely on the same. The Supreme Court further went on to observe that it has no manner of doubt that in the Courts in India, a point of foreign law is a matter of fact and, therefore, a plea based on a point of foreign law must satisfy the requirement of pleading a material fact in the petition fact in the petition filed before the Court. If foreign law is a matter of fact and is required to be proved as any other fact, then the question is who should establish that fact. In my considered view, obviously, the person who is alleging or seeking ouster of the jurisdiction of the Court based on the interpretation of the clauses in the agreements applying the English law."
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