https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200645 Under Section 9A of the Code of Civil Procedure as applicable in Maharashtra, a limitation objection may amount to a jurisdictional objection and must be decided as a preliminary issue at the interim stage. The provision is a special, self-contained procedure with a non obstante clause, so it overrides the general rule in Order XIV Rule 2 CPC in Maharashtra matters. The Court relied on the wider statutory meaning of "jurisdiction" and the effect of Section 3 of the Limitation Act, which bars entertaining time-barred suits, and upheld the impugned orders treating limitation as a preliminary jurisdictional issue. en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:22:20 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200645 Under Section 9A of the Code of Civil Procedure as applicable in Maharashtra, a limitation objection may amount to a jurisdictional objection and must be decided as a preliminary issue at the interim stage. The provision is a special, self-contained procedure with a non obstante clause, so it overrides the general rule in Order XIV Rule 2 CPC in Maharashtra matters. The Court relied on the wider statutory meaning of "jurisdiction" and the effect of Section 3 of the Limitation Act, which bars entertaining time-barred suits, and upheld the impugned orders treating limitation as a preliminary jurisdictional issue. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200645