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Civil Procedure Code (CPC) 1908 Special Suits

Any amount which a Court will order to be paid as compensatory costs in respect of false or vexatious claims or defences, shall not exceed the amount of –

Two thousand rupees or the amount with in its pecuniary jurisdiction whichever is less

Three thousand rupees or the amount within its pecuniary jurisdiction, which ever is less

Four thousand rupees or the amount within its pecuniary jurisdiction, which ever is less

Five thousand rupees or the amount within its pecuniary jurisdiction which ever is less

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Explanation:

Section 35A-
[35A. Compensatory costs in respect of false or vexatious claims or defences.—(1) If in any suit or other proceedings 2 [including an execution proceeding but 3 [excluding an appeal or a revision] any party objects to the claim or defence on the ground that the claim or defence or any part of it is, as against the objector, false or vexatious to the knowledge of the party by whom it has been put forward, and if thereafter, as against the objector, such claim or defence is disallowed, abandoned or withdrawn in whole or in part, the Court, 4 [if it so thinks fit], may, after recording its reasons for holding such claim or defence to be false or vexatious, make an order for the payment to the object or by the party by whom such claim or defence has been put forward, of cost by way of compensation. 5 [(2) No Court shall make any such order for the payment of an amount exceeding 6 [three thousand rupees] or exceeding the limits of its pecuniary jurisdiction, whichever amount is less