Service on civil public officer or on servant of railway company or local authority
Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Where the defendant is a public officer (not belonging to the 1[the Indians] military 2[naval or air] forces 3***), or is the servant of a railway company or local authority, the Court may, if it appears to it that the summons may be most conveniently so served. send it for service on the defendant to the head of the office in which he is employed, together with a copy to be retained by the defendant.
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "his Majesty's".
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and the First Sch., for "or naval".
3. The words "or His Majesty's Indian Marine Service" omitted by Act 35 of 1934, s. 2 and Sch.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 27 CPC and Order 5 Rule 27 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 5 Rule 27 CPC, Order V Rule 27 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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