https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283711 Substituted service under Order V Rule 20 CPC is valid only if the court records satisfaction that the defendant is avoiding service or cannot be served in the ordinary way, and the mandatory steps under Order V Rule 17 are complied with. Here, the serving officer's report did not show the required affixation of summons, and the order permitting substituted service was cryptic and unsupported by the statutory preconditions. The ex parte decree was therefore procedurally infirm, and the High Court was right to set it aside; the challenge to that decision failed. en-us Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:29:18 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283711 Substituted service under Order V Rule 20 CPC is valid only if the court records satisfaction that the defendant is avoiding service or cannot be served in the ordinary way, and the mandatory steps under Order V Rule 17 are complied with. Here, the serving officer's report did not show the required affixation of summons, and the order permitting substituted service was cryptic and unsupported by the statutory preconditions. The ex parte decree was therefore procedurally infirm, and the High Court was right to set it aside; the challenge to that decision failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283711