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Delhi High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Single Judge Bench comprising of Jayant Nath, J. allowed an appeal filed against the previous order whereby the right of defendants to file written statement was closed as 120 days prescribed in CPC for filing a written statement had expired.<\/p>\n

Ms Sudeepti, Advocate appearing for the defendants submitted that a written statement was filed within 120 days but there was a delay in re-filing the same. She relied on the order of the Joint Registrar where it was noted that a written statement was filed but returned under office objection.<\/p>\n

The High Court took note of the admitted fact that defendants have filed a written statement. Reference was made to\u00a0Indian Statistical Institute v. Associate Builders,\u00a0<\/em>(1978) 1 SCC 483<\/a> and it was observed to be a settled legal position that delay in\u00a0re-filing\u00a0<\/em>has to be considered on a different footing. Contention put forward by N. Prabhakar and Dhruv Sharma, Advocates for plaintiffs that re-filing tantamount to fresh filing did not find favour with the Court. Accordingly, the appeal was allowed. The written statement was directed to be\u00a0taken on record if re-filed within one week. [Narender Kumar Sharma v. Maharana Pratap Educational Centre,\u00a02018 SCC OnLine Del 13146<\/b><\/a>, dated 13-12-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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