First Schedule · Order 5 · Rule 4
No party to be ordered to appear in person unless resident within certain limits
4. No party to be ordered to appear in person unless resident within certain limits.—No party shall be ordered to appear in person unless he resides—
(a) within the local limits of the Court’s ordinary original jurisdiction, or
(b) without such limits but at place less than fifty or (where there is railway or steamer communication or other established public conveyance for five-sixths of the distance between the place where he resides and the place where the Court is situate) less than two hundred miles distance from the court-house.
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Banaka editorial consolidation of the general central text, with the 2025 postal-service amendments applied. Not an official or certified edition. State/High Court variations, commercial-dispute modifications and prescribed Appendix forms are not consolidated here; consult the source and applicable court rules. Hindi learning guides are original explanations, not a statutory translation. Source checked: 2026-10-01. Source PDF page: 90. Government reference PDF. 2025 amending Act. For reference and study, not individual legal advice.