Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order XI: Discovery And Inspection

Order XI Rule 2 CPC: Particular interrogatories to be submitted

Bare Act text

2. Particular interrogatories to be submitted.—On an application for leave to deliver interrogatories, the particular interrogatories proposed to be delivered shall be submitted to the Court [and that court shall decide within seven days from the day of filing of the said application]. In deciding upon such application, the Court shall take into account any offer, which may be made by the party sought to be interrogated to deliver particulars, or to make admissions, or to produce documents relating to the matters in question, or any of them, and leave shall be given as to such only of the interrogatories submitted as the Court shall consider necessary either for disposing fairly of the suit or for saving costs.

Amendment notes

Ins. by s. 21, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).

Text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act No. 5 of 1908), First Schedule, as amended, including the changes for commercial disputes made by the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

When leave to deliver interrogatories is sought, the proposed interrogatories must be submitted to the Court, which shall decide within seven days of the filing of the application. The Court considers any offer by the party to be interrogated to give particulars, make admissions or produce documents. Leave is given only for those interrogatories the Court considers necessary either for disposing fairly of the suit or for saving costs. The seven-day period was inserted by the 2002 amendment.