2. Power to require attendance of prisoners to give evidence. Where it appears to a Court that the evidence of a person confined or detained in a prison within the State is material in a suit, the Court may make an order requiring the officer in charge of the prisonRead…
3. Expenses to be paid into Court. (1) Before making any order under rule 2, the Court shall require the party at whose instance or for whose benefit the order is to be issued, to pay into Court such sum of money as appears to the Court to be sufficientRead…
4. Power of State Government to exclude certain persons from the operation of rule 2. (1) The State Government may, at any time, having regard to the matters specified in sub-rule (2) by general or special order, direct that nay person or class of persons shall not be removed fromRead…
5. Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain cases. Where the person in respect of whom an order is made under rule 2– (a) is certified by the medical officer attached to the prison as unfit to be removed from the prison by reasonRead…
6. Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody. In any other case, the officer in charge of the prison shall, upon delivery of the Court’s order, cause the person named therein to be taken to the Court so as to be present at the time mentioned in such order,Read…
7. Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison. (1) Where it appears to the Court that the evidence of a person confined or detained in a prison, whether within the State or elsewhere in India, is material in a suit but the attendance of such person cannotRead…
ORDER XVII – ADJOURNMENTS 1. Court may grant time and adjourn hearing. (1) The Court may, if sufficient cause is shown, at any stage of the suit grant time to the parties or to any of them, and may from time to time adjourn the hearing of the suit. (2)Read…
2 . Procedure if parties fail to appear on day fixed. Where, on any day to which the hearing of the suit is adjourned, the parties or any of them fail to appear, the Court may proceed to dispose of the suit in one of the modes directed in thatRead…
3. Court may proceed notwithstanding either party fails to produce evidence, etc. Where any party to a suit to whom time has been granted fails to produce his evidence, or to cause the attendance of his witnesses, or to perform any other act necessary to the further progress of theRead…
ORDER XVIII – HEARING OF THE SUIT AND EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES 1. Right to begin. The plaintiff has the right to begin unless the defendant admits the facts alleged by the plaintiff and contends that either in point of law or on some additional facts alleged by the defendant theRead…
2. Statement and production of evidence. (1) On the day fixed for the hearing of the suit or on any other day to which the hearing is adjourned, the party having the right to begin shall state his case and produce his evidence in support of the issues which heRead…
3. Evidence where several issues. Where there are several issues, the burden of proving some of which lies on the party, the party beginning may, at his option, either produce his evidence on those issues or reserve it by way of answer to the evidence produced by the other party;Read…
3A. Party to appear before other witnesses. Where a party himself wishes to appear as a witness, he shall so appear before any other witness on his behalf has been examined, unless the Court, for reasons to be recorded permits him to appear as his own witness at a laterRead…
4. Recording of evidence by Commissioner. (1) In every case, the evidence of a witness of his examination-in-chief shall be given by affidavit and copies thereof shall be supplied to the opposite party by the party who calls him for evidence. (2) The evidence (cross-examination and re-examination) of the witnessRead…
5. How evidence shall be taken in appealable cases. In cases in which an appeal is allowed, the evidence of each witness shall be- (a) taken down in the language of the Court,- (i) in writing by, or in the presence and under the personal direction and superintendence of, theRead…
6. When deposition to be interpreted. Where the evidence is taken down in language different from that in which it is given, and the witness does not understand the language in which it is taken down, the evidence as taken down in writing shall be interpreted to him in theRead…
