5. Corporations.—Where any party to a suit is a corporation or a body of persons, whether incorporated or not, empowered by law to sue or be sued, whether in its own name or in the name of any officer or other person, any opposite party may apply for an order allowing him to deliver interrogatories to any member or officer of such corporation or body, and an order may be made accordingly.
Order XI Rule 5 CPC: Corporations
Bare Act text
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
Where a party to a suit is a corporation, or a body of persons empowered by law to sue or be sued, whether incorporated or not and whether in its own name or in the name of an officer or other person, an opposite party may apply for an order allowing him to deliver interrogatories to any member or officer of that corporation or body. The Court may make an order accordingly.
Order XI: Discovery And Inspection
- 1 Discovery by interrogatories
- 2 Particular interrogatories to be submitted
- 3 Costs of interrogatories
- 4 Form of interrogatories
- 5 Corporations
- 6 Objections to interrogatories by answer
- 7 Setting aside and striking out interrogatories
- 8 Affidavit in answer, filing
- 9 Form of affidavit in answer
- 10 No exception to be taken
- 11 Order to answer or answer further
- 12 Application for discovery of documents
- 13 Affidavit of documents
- 14 Production of documents
- 15 Inspection of documents referred to in pleadings or affidavits
- 16 Notice to produce
- 17 Time for inspection when notice given
- 18 Order for inspection
- 19 Verified copies
- 20 Premature discovery
- 21 Non-compliance with order for discovery
- 22 Using answer to interrogatories at trial
- 23 Order to apply to minors