https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194345 An application for rejection of plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure must be decided only on the plaint averments, because the court at that stage examines whether a cause of action is disclosed or the suit is barred by law. Defences in the written statement are irrelevant for clauses (a) and (d), and cannot be used to defeat or support the application. A direction to file the written statement before deciding the rejection application was unsustainable, so the matter was remitted to the trial court to decide the application on the plaint alone. en-us Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194345 An application for rejection of plaint under Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure must be decided only on the plaint averments, because the court at that stage examines whether a cause of action is disclosed or the suit is barred by law. Defences in the written statement are irrelevant for clauses (a) and (d), and cannot be used to defeat or support the application. A direction to file the written statement before deciding the rejection application was unsustainable, so the matter was remitted to the trial court to decide the application on the plaint alone. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194345