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Updated 12 November 2026
Judgment

Madras High Court: a defendant transposed as plaintiff cannot amend the plaint under Order VI Rule 17 CPC

In a civil revision under Article 227 of the Constitution, the Madras High Court (Justice N. Anand Venkatesh) set aside a trial court order allowing amendment of the plaint in a 2005 suit, holding that a party transposed from defendant to plaintiff cannot amend the very plaint he did not originally file.

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Why it matters for CLAT

Clarifies the scope of Order VI Rule 17 CPC: the right to amend a pleading belongs only to the party who filed that specific pleading, and does not pass to a party merely because procedural transposition later changes their status in the suit.

Judgment

Madhya Pradesh High Court: a prior agreement to sell defeats a later compromise, and flags cash deals to Income Tax

Hearing a second appeal arising from a suit for specific performance, the Madhya Pradesh High Court's Gwalior Bench refused to let the original parties dispose of the case by a compromise under Order XXIII Rule 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, after third parties were impleaded on the strength of a later agreement to sell the same land in their favour.

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