Interim Order 2

Order Details: COPY OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Pdf Text: 7 CS SCJ 1646/25 Vandana Bagga Vs. Union of India
13.11.2025
Present: Sh. Prashant Jaishwal, Ld. proxy counsel for
plaintiff.
Ms. Bani Dikshit, Ld. counsel for defendant nos. 1-6
(through VC) alongwith Sh. Uddhav Khanna.
Sh. Ashwin Kataria, Ld. counsel for defendant no.7.
Summons issue against the defendant nos.1-6
through dealing clerk on 11.09.2025 and also served through
WhatsApp on 17.09.2025. Summons served upon the defendant
no. 7 by self on 16.10.2025 and through WhatsApp on
04.10.2025. Same be taken on record.
WS, list of document and vakalatnama filed on
behalf of defendant no.7 on 07.11.2025. Same is taken on record.
Copy supplied to the opposite party.
Ld. Counsel for the defendant nos. 1-6 seeks some
time to file the WS from the ground that she has been recently
engaged. The statutory period to file the WS on behalf of the
defendant nos.1-6 has already expired on 11.10.2025. However,
in the interest of justice defendant nos. 1-6 is at the liberty to file
WS alongwith the condonation of delay application on or before
the next date of hearing with advance copy to the opposite party.
A consolidated application under Order 7 rule 11 and
under order 7 rule 10 of the CPC 1908 filed on behalf of the
defendant no.7. Same be taken on record. Copy supplied to the
opposite party.
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Ld. counsel for the defendant no. 7 seeks sometime
to taken instruction as to which of the application he wants to
press at this time.
Ld. counsel for the defendant no. 7 submits that the
present court does not have the territorial jurisdiction to try the
suit. He also submits that the suit has been filed without any
cause of action and therefore it is not maintainable.
In the opinion of the court both the relief sought
pertains to the different facts and hence separate provisions have
been enacted in the CPC for the same. Defendant no. 7 is
directed to file separate application or press only one of the relief
in the application filed today in the court.
At this stage Ld. counsel for defendant no.7 after
taking instructions submits that he wants to press only the relief
for return of the plaint under order 7 rule 10 CPC.
Ld. counsel for the defendant no.7 is at liberty to file
separate application for rejection of plaint under order 7 rule 11
of CPC.
The plaintiff is at liberty to file the reply to the
application under order 7 rule 10 CPC filed today in the court by
the defendant no.7 on or before the next date of hearing with
advance copy to the opposite party.
He is permitted to do so.
(SUNIL KHATRI)
Civil Judge-06 (Central)
Tis Hazari Courts
Delhi/13.11.2025
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