Court may order defendant or plaintiff to appear in person
Issue and service of summons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
(1) Where the court sees reason to require the personal appearance of the defendant, the summons shall order him to appear in person in Court on the day therein specified.
(2) Where the Court sees reason to require the personal appearance of the plaintiff on the same day, it shall make an order for such appearance.
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order V Rule 3 CPC and Order 5 Rule 3 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 5 Rule 3 CPC, Order V Rule 3 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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