First Schedule · Order 33 · Rule 17
Defence by an indigent person
[17. Defence by an indigent person.—Any defendant, who desire to plead a set-off or counter- claim, may be allowed to set up such claim as an indigent person, and the rules contained in this Order shall so far as may be, apply to him as if he were a plaintiff and his written statement were a plaint.
Understand civil procedure
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