https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=106081 A company remains a separate legal person despite a change in shareholding, ownership or name, and such changes do not by themselves justify treating it as dissolved or amalgamated. Discovery under Order XI Rule 12 CPC is confined to documents relevant to the pleaded issues and the defence; documents with no material bearing on the controversy cannot be compelled. Where the plaintiff has already disclosed the necessary transactional material and the requested blueprints, drawings or acquisition-history documents are not shown to be relevant to the defence as framed, further discovery is not warranted. en-us Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:46:55 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=106081 A company remains a separate legal person despite a change in shareholding, ownership or name, and such changes do not by themselves justify treating it as dissolved or amalgamated. Discovery under Order XI Rule 12 CPC is confined to documents relevant to the pleaded issues and the defence; documents with no material bearing on the controversy cannot be compelled. Where the plaintiff has already disclosed the necessary transactional material and the requested blueprints, drawings or acquisition-history documents are not shown to be relevant to the defence as framed, further discovery is not warranted. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=106081