Order XXX - Discovery and Inspection : Supreme Court Rules 2013

What is Discovery and Inspection? Order XXX of Supreme Court Rules 2013

Order XXX of Supreme Court Rules 2013 : "Discovery and Inspection"

1. Order XI of the first Schedule to the Code except rules Sand 23 of that order, shall apply with respect to discovery and inspection in suits instituted before the Court.

2. Where the Court has made an order allowing one party to deliver interrogatories to the other, those interrogatories shall be answered by such persons as the Court may direct.

3. No application for leave to deliver interrogatories shall be made by the defendant until after he has filed his written statement.

4. After an order has been made for the delivery of interrogatories one set of the interrogatories, as allowed, shall be annexed and served with the order upon the person to be interrogated.

5. The Court may, for sufficient reason, allow any affidavit to be sworn, on behalf of the party from whom discovery, production or inspection is sought, by any person competent to make the same.

6. Where any document is ordered to be deposited in Court a copy of the order and a schedule of the
document shall be left in the Registry at the time when the deposit is made.

7. When the purpose for which any documents have been deposited in Court is satisfied, the party by whom they were deposited may, pending the suit, have them delivered out to him, if he has the consent in writing of the other party, or an order of the Court.