petitioner under Order XI Rule 1 of the Civil
Procedure Code ( CPC ) seeking leave to administer interrogatories on
respondent ... providing the
procedure of discovery by interrogatories in the Code of Civil
Procedure is to shorten the litigation or at least save
petitioner under Order XI Rule 1 of the Civil
Procedure Code ( CPC ) seeking leave to administer interrogatories on
respondent ... providing the
procedure of discovery by interrogatories in the Code of Civil
Procedure is to shorten the litigation or at least save
contended that under Order XI Rule 4 CPC interrogatories are required to be
sent in Form-2 in Appendix-C with such ... NOTICE UNDER ORDER XI RULE 4, OF THE CODE OF
CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908 FOR GIVING REPLY TO
INTERROGATIONS AND PRODUCTION OF
DOCUMENTS
which reads as follows:
"4. Order XI of our Civil Procedure Code closely follows the
rules of practice and procedure evolved ... Code, is more akin to that of Order X, Civil
Procedure Code, than to that of cross-examination."
(emphasis supplied
them (see Form No. 5 in Appendix C of the
Civil Procedure Code). After he has disclosed the
documents by the affidavit ... rule.
xxx
13. Section 136 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1882,
corresponding to Order XI, Rule 21, of the
respondents/plaintiffs under Order XI Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure ,
1908 ( CPC ) seeking to serve interrogatories ... interrogatories within a period of six weeks. While answering the
interrogatories on affidavit, the petitioner/defendant can object to answering
any particular interrogatory
basis for denying the
interrogatories.
9. The amendments carried out in the Code of Civil Procedure , 1908
pursuant to the enactment ... disclosure of documents, including by way of
interrogatories, shall be governed by the Code of Civil Procedure , 1908 as
amended by the Commercial
application
preferred under Order XI Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure , 1908
( CPC ), seeking leave to serve ... liberal and not hypertechnical
in allowing the use of interrogatories as the interrogatories
help shorten the controversy between the parties and hence,
reduce the time
denying the
interrogatories. Certainly, whatever can form the subject matter of
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interrogatories can form the subject matter ... Bank need not
serve the interrogatories because it can find the answer thereto in its own records,
interrogatories would still lie. As laid down
cover the power to require the other party to answer interrogatories. Order Xi Civil Procedure Code has the heading "DISCOVERY And INSPECTION ... course of trial. The provision of Order Xi, Civil Procedure Code . do not deserve a technical or truncated approach. Ultimately
