First Schedule · Order 6 · Rule 16
Striking out pleadings
[16. Striking out pleadings.—The Court may at any stage of the proceedings order to be struck out or amended any matter in any pleading—
(a) which may be unnecessary, scandalous, frivolous or vexatious, of
(b) which may tend to prejudice, embarrass or delay the fair trail of the suit, or
(c) which is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court.]
Understand civil procedure
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