Landmark case · Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation · Semester 5

Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-operative Marketing Federation Ltd.

(1998) 5 SCC 69 · Supreme Court of India

Section 10 stay requires that the matter in issue is directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties in a competent court.

From topic

Res sub judice and res judicata — Unit I, Civil Procedure Code and Law of Limitation.

Related sections:

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 10 — Stay of suit
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 11 — Res judicata
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 11 Expl. IV — Constructive res judicata