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Supreme Court judgments on Section 96, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

9 judgments, latest first, from 2019 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 96 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

Sakina Sultanali Sunesara (Momin) vs Shia Imami Ismaili Momin Jamat Samaj & Ors.
SC · 23 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1921 : 2025 INSC 570
Issue arose whether a litigant who was already a party to the suit, yet contests the fact or legality of a compromise embodied in a decree, is restricted to an application before the trial court under the proviso to Ord.…
Angadi Chandranna vs Shankar & Ors.
SC · 22 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1417 : 2025 INSC 532
The main dispute in the lis is, whether the suit property was ancestral or self-acquired property of defendant no.1.
G.N.R. Babu @ S.N. Babu vs Dr. B.C. Muthappa & Ors.
SC · 6 September 2022
[2022] 11 S.C.R. 203 : 2022 INSC 931
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – ss.96, 105 & Or.IX, r.13 – Ex-parte decree against defendant – Appeal u/s.96 – Scope of adjudication – Ex-parte decree was passed against the appellantdefendant in the suit filed by first…
M/s Frost International Limited vs M/s Milan Developers and Builders (P) Limited & Anr.
SC · 1 April 2022
[2022] 14 S.C.R. 1100 : 2022 INSC 380
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 : ss. 96, 115 and Or.VII r.11 Negotiable Instruments Act - ss. 118, 138 - Specific Relief Act - ss. 34, 41 – Suit for declaration – Rejection of plaint - Respondent no.1 engaged in business…
V. Prabhakara vs Basavaraj K. (Dead) by Lr. & Anr.
SC · 7 October 2021
[2021] 11 S.C.R. 377 : 2021 INSC 626
Will – Indian Succession Act – s.63 – Evidence Act – s.68 – Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – s.96 – Suit for declaration and possession of suit property – Appellant claimed title over the property on the basis of register…
Sayyed Ayaz Ali vs Prakash G Goyal & Ors.
SC · 20 July 2021
[2021] 6 S.C.R. 661 : 2021 INSC 342
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: s.96; Or.7 r.11 – Rejection of plaint – Writ petition by plaintiff challenging the order of trial court allowing the application filed under Or.7 r.11 – Maintainability of – Held: The defin…
Malluru Mallappa (D) Thr. Lrs. vs Kuruvathappa & Ors.
SC · 12 February 2020
[2020] 2 S.C.R. 789 : 2020 INSC 173
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – ss.96, 100 and Or.XLI, r.31 – Appellant-plaintiff filed suit against respondents-defendants for specific performance of agreement to sell – Defendant no.1 pleaded that the suit was barred…
State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs B. Ranga Reddy (D) by Lrs & Ors.
SC · 9 August 2019
[2019] 10 S.C.R. 143 : 2019 INSC 886
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – ss.11, 96 and Or. XLI, r.22, Or.XLI, r.33 – Three separate suits were filed against the defendants including the State – First and second suit were in respect of land falling in Survey No.…
R. S. Anjayya Gupta vs Thippaiah Setty & Ors.
SC · 1 July 2019
[2019] 8 S.C.R. 869 : 2019 INSC 699
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – s.96 and Or.41,r. 31 – Respondent no.1 (original plaintiff) filed a suit for partition of certain properties against appellant (defendant no.1), respondent no.2 (defendant no.2), and origi…

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