30. Court may require parties rescinding to do equity.—On adjudging the rescission of a contract, the court may require the party to whom such relief is granted to restore, so far as may be, any benefit which he may have received from the other party and to make any compensation to him which justice may require.
Section 30 Specific Relief Act: Court may require parties rescinding to do equity
Bare Act text
Text of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 (Act No. 47 of 1963), as amended up to the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018. Source: India Code, Government of India.
In simple words
The court may adjudge rescission of a contract. It may then require the party who obtains this relief to restore any benefit received from the other party, so far as may be. It may also require him to make any compensation that justice requires. The court has discretion here, as the word "may" shows.
Chapter IV: Rescission Of Contracts
- 27 When rescission may be adjudged or refused
- 28 Rescission in certain circumstances of contracts for the sale or lease of immovable property, the specific performance of which has been decreed
- 29 Alternative prayer for rescission in suit for specific performance
- 30 Court may require parties rescinding to do equity