3. Rejection of irrelevant or inadmissible documents.—The Court may at any stage of the suit reject any document which it considers irrelevant or otherwise inadmissible, recording the grounds of such rejection.
Order XIII Rule 3 CPC: Rejection of irrelevant or inadmissible documents
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
The Court may, at any stage of the suit, reject any document which it considers irrelevant or otherwise inadmissible. It must record the grounds of the rejection. The power is exercised by the Court on its own assessment and is not limited to any particular stage.
Order XIII: Production, Impounding And Return Of Documents
- 1 Original documents to be produced at or before the settlement of issues
- 2 Effect of non-production of documents (Repealed)
- 3 Rejection of irrelevant or inadmissible documents
- 4 Endorsements on documents admitted in evidence
- 5 Endorsements on copies of admitted entries in books, accounts and records
- 6 Endorsements on documents rejected an inadmissible in evidence
- 7 Recording of admitted and return of rejected documents
- 8 Court may order any document to be impounded
- 9 Return of admitted documents
- 10 Court may send for papers from its own records or from other Courts
- 11 Provisions as to documents applied to material objects