https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272651 Petitioners with separate and distinct grievances cannot join in one writ petition unless the right to relief arises from the same act or transaction and common questions of law or fact exist. Applying the Court-fees Act, the writ rules and Order I Rule 1 CPC, the Court found that each trader's complaint stemmed from different acts of obstruction or permit insistence by different officers at different places and times. The causes of action were therefore independent, there was no sufficient common factual matrix, and court fee had to be assessed separately for each petitioner as if individual writ petitions had been filed. The joint petitions were not permitted to proceed in their existing form, though amendment was allowed. en-us Fri, 20 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 May 2018 10:21:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272651 Petitioners with separate and distinct grievances cannot join in one writ petition unless the right to relief arises from the same act or transaction and common questions of law or fact exist. Applying the Court-fees Act, the writ rules and Order I Rule 1 CPC, the Court found that each trader's complaint stemmed from different acts of obstruction or permit insistence by different officers at different places and times. The causes of action were therefore independent, there was no sufficient common factual matrix, and court fee had to be assessed separately for each petitioner as if individual writ petitions had been filed. The joint petitions were not permitted to proceed in their existing form, though amendment was allowed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 20 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272651