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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Order XXXIX: Temporary Injunctions And Interlocutory Orders

Order XXXIX Rule 3A CPC: Court to dispose of application for injunction within thirty days

Bare Act text

[3A. Court to dispose of application for injunction within thirty days.—Where an injunction has been granted without giving notice to the opposite party, the Court shall make an endeavour to finally dispose of the application within thirty days from the date on which the injunction was granted; and where it is unable so to do, it shall record its reasons for such inability.]

Amendment notes

  1. Ins. by s. 86, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).

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 an injunction has been granted without notice to the opposite party, the Court shall endeavour to finally dispose of the injunction application within thirty days from the date the injunction was granted. If it cannot do so, it must record its reasons for that inability. This rule was inserted by the 1976 amendment.

Order XXXIX: Temporary Injunctions And Interlocutory Orders

  1. 1 Cases in which temporary injunction may be granted
  2. 2 Injunction to restrain repetition or continuance of breach
  3. 2A Consequence of disobedience or breach of injunction
  4. 3 Before granting injunction, Court to direct notice to opposite party
  5. 3A Court to dispose of application for injunction within thirty days
  6. 4 Order for injunction may be discharged, varied or set aside
  7. 5 Injunction to corporation binding on its officers
  8. 6 Power to order interim sale
  9. 7 Detention, preservation, inspection, etc., of subject-matter of suit
  10. 8 Application for such orders to be after notice
  11. 9 When party may be put in immediate possession of land the subject-matter of suit
  12. 10 Deposit of money, etc., in Court