Saturday, May 1, 2010

LT Foods Limited V/s Sachdeva & Sons Rice Millls Limited & others 2010 (42) PTC 144 (Del)

Delhi High Court came down very heavily on adoption of “cut-copy-paste” method

The Defendant had file an application for amendment of its written statement under order 6 Rule 17 of CPC on the ground that written statements was prepared adopting “cut-copy-paste” method and it does not contain relevant material pertaining to the present suit and contained material pertaining to some other suit.

The Delhi High Court came down very heavily on adoption of “cut-copy-paste” method and observed that

“ I consider that this attitude must be cured and that manner in which written statements are being filed these days containing prolix and unnecessary material adopting “cut-copy- paste” method, must not be encouraged as this is going to have far-reaching consequences. Already the situation has come that pleadings are note concise and because of use of computers, in pleadings, apart from basic facts not only detailed legal prepositions and evidence , irrelevant facts are being stated. This results into wastage of the time of the Court in going through these unnecessary and lengthy pleadings while considering the various applications and while framing issues.”

The Delhi High Court allowed the application but with heavy cost of Rupees one lac for adopting “cut-copy-paste” method and prepare a written statement without even reading the plaint.

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