In short. Under Order 7 Rule 11, a commercial court can end a suit at the very start, before anyone gives evidence. That happens if the plaint, read on its own, shows no cause of action, or runs into a legal bar (limitation, say, or no Section 12A mediation when no urgent relief is sought), or is still undervalued or short on court fee after the court has given time to fix it. Only the plaint and its documents are looked at. A rejection counts as a decree, appealable within 60 days, and you can refile if limitation allows. Get the plaint checked on each ground first.
Is this your situation?
- Your recovery suit is drafted and ready to go, and you'd like to know whether it can be knocked out before the trial even starts.
- You filed without Section 12A mediation. Now the defendant has moved an application to reject the plaint.
- The other side says your own plaint proves the claim is time-barred. Their lawyer has underlined the dates.
- The court has given you a date to make up a shortfall in court fee, and accounts haven't released the money yet.
- You've been sued, and you suspect the plaint has a hole big enough to end the case early.
- Your plaint has already been rejected. Appeal, or start again?
- You added the debtor's director and its group company as defendants, and their lawyer says there's no case against either of them.
Can a commercial court really throw out a plaint before trial?
It can. If the plaint itself shows the case can't go on, a commercial court can end the suit at the first stage without recording a single word of evidence. Lawyers call this rejection of the plaint. The power sits in Order VII Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC). The plaint, if you haven't seen one, is the document that starts a civil suit. It says who you are, who you're suing, what happened, what you want and why this court can hear it. If that document, taken exactly as written, shows no legal claim or hits a legal bar, the court has no choice. It must reject it.
That's different from losing on the merits. Nobody decides here whether your invoices are genuine or the goods were faulty. The question is narrower. Assume every word of the plaint is true: does the law still let the suit go ahead? If not, it ends. If it does, the application fails and the suit carries on to the written statement, admission and denial of documents, issues and trial.
Two things make this stage matter more in commercial courts than it once did. One is Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, which makes pre-institution mediation compulsory unless the suit contemplates urgent interim relief. Plaints filed without it are now among the commonest targets. The other is time. Commercial procedure is strict, and a suit thrown out eighteen months after filing can leave the plaintiff facing a limitation problem when it tries again.
What Order 7 Rule 11 actually says, clause by clause
Order VII Rule 11(a), CPC
If the plaint discloses no cause of action, it's rejected. A cause of action is the set of facts which, once proved, entitles you to what you're asking for. In a recovery suit that's normally a contract or a course of dealing, your side of the bargain performed, an amount falling due, and no payment.
Order VII Rule 11(b) and (c), CPC
Two money-related grounds. One: the relief is undervalued and you don't fix the valuation by the date the court sets. Two: the valuation is fine but the court fee paid falls short, and you don't make it up in time. Under the proviso, the court shouldn't stretch that date unless there's an exceptional reason and refusing would cause grave injustice.
Order VII Rule 11(d), (e) and (f), CPC
Rejection also follows where the plaint's own statements show the suit is barred by some law, where it isn't filed in duplicate, or where you don't comply with Rule 9 (copies and process fee for service). Clause (d) is the workhorse. It's the one used for limitation and for Section 12A.
Order VII Rules 12 and 13, CPC
Under Rule 12 the judge has to record the rejection order with reasons. Rule 13 says a rejection doesn't, by itself, stop you presenting a fresh plaint on the same cause of action. The new plaint still has to be within limitation, though.
Section 12A, Commercial Courts Act, 2015
A commercial suit that doesn't contemplate urgent interim relief can't be instituted until you've exhausted pre-institution mediation under the 2018 Rules. In Patil Automation v. Rakheja Engineers (2022) the Supreme Court held this mandatory. For suits instituted on or after 20 August 2022, one filed in breach must be rejected under Order VII Rule 11, and the court can do that on its own.
What the judge reads, and what the judge ignores
Just the plaint and the documents filed with it. Nothing else. It's the single most important rule at this stage, and defendants forget it constantly. In Saleem Bhai v. State of Maharashtra (2003) the Supreme Court said the averments in the plaint are what count, and the written statement defence is irrelevant here. An application arguing 'we never got the goods' or 'the invoices are forged' isn't really a rejection application. It's a defence. It belongs in the written statement and at trial.
The court reads the plaint as a whole, sensibly, not one sentence at a time. It won't be taken in by clever drafting either. In T. Arivandandam v. T.V. Satyapal (1977), the Supreme Court said that where skilful wording creates the illusion of a cause of action, the court should nip it in the bud. Dahiben v. Arvindbhai Kalyanji Bhanushali (2020) said the same thing again. If a meaningful reading shows the claim is plainly barred or vexatious, it shouldn't be allowed to eat up years of court time.
For plaintiffs, that cuts both ways. Your plaint has to set out the facts that make up the claim, in order, with dates, and the documents you rely on must go in with it. Be vague about the date of the last payment and you've handed the defendant an opening. Same if you write that the debt was 'acknowledged from time to time' without saying when or how. Good commercial suit drafting is mostly about shutting those gaps before the other side spots them.
Skipped Section 12A mediation? Expect a rejection application
This is now the most frequent reason commercial courts reject plaints. If your suit doesn't contemplate urgent interim relief and you didn't first go through pre-institution mediation with the Legal Services Authority, the plaint is liable to be rejected under Order VII Rule 11(d). Patil Automation (2022) settled that for suits filed on or after 20 August 2022. In Dhanbad Fuels v. Union of India (2025), the Supreme Court confirmed the position and explained the older cases. Suits filed before that date without mediation, if they're still pending, go to time-bound mediation instead of being rejected.
The exemption is a narrow one. The test is whether, looking from the plaintiff's side, urgent interim relief could reasonably be contemplated on the facts pleaded. That's judged from the plaint, its subject matter and the cause of action. Under Yamini Manohar v. T.K.D. Keerthi (2023) the court can see through an injunction prayer that's only there as a disguise. Picture a plain money claim on unpaid invoices, filed months after the last payment, with a token prayer stopping the defendant from 'alienating assets' and no facts showing any real risk. Courts reject exactly that kind of plaint. What genuine urgency looks like on paper is in our guide on getting an injunction without mediation.
Two practical points. Mediating after you've filed doesn't cure anything, because the bar is on institution of the suit, so the date that matters is your filing date. And if your interim relief is refused on merits, that alone doesn't make the plaint bad, as long as the urgency was real when you filed. The Supreme Court has said the fate of the interim application isn't the test.
When your own plaint shows the claim is out of time
Under the Limitation Act, 1963, most money claims carry three years. Article 14 covers the price of goods sold and delivered, Article 18 the price of work done, Article 55 breach of contract, and Article 113 anything not covered elsewhere. Say the plaint shows the last invoice fell due more than three years before filing, and pleads nothing that stretches the period. Then the suit is barred on its face, and clause (d) applies.
What rescues a plaint like that is an extension, properly pleaded. A signed written acknowledgment of the debt under Section 18 starts a fresh three years. So does a part payment under Section 19, shown in the debtor's handwriting or in a signed writing. Time spent in Section 12A mediation is excluded from limitation too. Once the plaint pleads an acknowledgment or payment with its date, limitation usually turns into a mixed question of fact and law, and courts then tend to leave it for trial instead of rejecting. The trap? A plaint that relies on an acknowledgment without ever saying so clearly, or files the document and never mentions it.
Before a recovery plaint goes in, Advocate B.K. Singh writes the limitation date for each invoice in the margin. Then he checks that every date past the third anniversary is covered by a specific paragraph. The ledger confirmation and its date. The email where the customer's accounts head admitted the balance. The cheque that bounced but was signed. If a date isn't covered, one of two things happens: that invoice comes out of the claim, or the extension is pleaded with the document attached. Our guide to the limitation period for recovery of money shows how running accounts and acknowledgments are counted.
'No cause of action' in a money claim: where it really bites
Against the main debtor, a plaint seldom fails on this ground. Supply, invoice and non-payment are usually all pleaded. Where it does fail is against the extra defendants. Plaintiffs like to add the directors of a private limited company, a sister concern, a parent or a guarantor, without pleading a single fact that makes them personally liable. A company is a separate legal person. Being a director doesn't make you owe the company's trade debts. If the plaint says nothing about a personal guarantee, a personal undertaking, fraud or some other legal basis, there's no cause of action against that person.
But a plaint can't be rejected in part. In Sejal Glass v. Navilan Merchants (2018), the Supreme Court held that if it discloses a cause of action against even one defendant, Order VII Rule 11 can't be used to chop off the rest. Wrongly added parties are struck off instead, under Order I Rule 10. So the real risk of a thin claim against a director isn't that the whole suit dies. It's that the director gets struck off, sometimes with costs. And the pressure on the promoters you were counting on disappears.
Then there's suing as the wrong party, or suing the wrong party. A proprietorship has no separate legal identity, so the suit goes in the proprietor's name, trading as the firm. An unregistered partnership firm suing to enforce a contract runs into Section 69 of the Partnership Act, 1932. That's a 'barred by law' ground under clause (d). And a plaint naming a brand, instead of the company that actually issued the purchase orders, invites the reply that the named defendant never contracted with you.
Court fee and valuation: you get one chance to fix it
These are the grounds where the court has to give you a chance before rejecting. If the registry or the judge finds the suit undervalued or the fee short, a date is fixed for you to correct it. Rejection under clauses (b) and (c) follows only if you don't comply by then. The proviso to Rule 11 makes that date hard to move. Treat it as final.
Commercial suits have their own valuation rule. Under Section 12 of the Commercial Courts Act, a money suit is valued at the amount claimed plus interest worked out up to the filing date. That figure also decides whether you cross Rs 3 lakh and which court hears you. Court fee in Delhi is ad valorem under the Court Fees Act, 1870 as it applies to Delhi. UP and Haryana have schedules of their own. Check the current schedule before filing. The arithmetic is worked through in our guide on how a commercial suit is valued with interest and damages.
A wrong valuation can also land the suit in the wrong court. That's a separate problem. The plaint is returned under Order VII Rule 10 to be presented in the right court. It isn't rejected. The difference matters for limitation and for appeal, and the table below puts the main early exits side by side.
Rejection, return, referral, dismissal: which early exit is it?
| Early exit | What usually triggers it | What happens to the suit | What you can do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rejection of plaint, Order VII Rule 11 | No cause of action, a legal bar (limitation, Section 12A, Section 69 Partnership Act), or court fee or valuation left uncorrected | The suit ends. The order counts as a decree | Appeal under Section 13 within 60 days, or a fresh plaint within limitation (Rule 13) |
| Return of plaint, Order VII Rule 10 | No territorial or pecuniary jurisdiction, or the claim is under Rs 3 lakh and not commercial | You get the plaint back to file in the right court | File in the proper court. The return order can be appealed under Order XLIII |
| Reference to arbitration, Section 8 Arbitration Act | There's a valid arbitration clause and the defendant applies before its first statement on merits | The suit stops and the parties go to arbitration | Start the arbitration, or defend it |
| Summary judgment, Order XIIIA | One side has no real prospect of success, and there's no compelling reason for a trial | The claim or defence is decided on merits without a full trial | Appeal against the judgment |
| Dismissal for default, Order IX | The plaintiff doesn't turn up on the hearing date | The suit is dismissed | Apply for restoration, showing sufficient cause |
| Striking out pleadings, Order VI Rule 16 | Bits of a pleading are scandalous, frivolous or an abuse of process | Those bits go. The suit carries on | Amend, or argue it at trial |
Objections that aren't rejection grounds at all
Defendants dress up plenty of objections as Order VII Rule 11 applications when they're nothing of the sort. An arbitration clause is the clearest case. It doesn't make the suit 'barred by law' under clause (d). The defendant's remedy is a Section 8 application under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, made no later than its first statement on the substance of the dispute, asking the court to send the parties to arbitration.
Disputed facts don't count either. Saying the goods were defective, the rates were never agreed, payment went in cash or the signatory had no authority is a defence. So is claiming the plaintiff's documents are fabricated. All of that goes to trial. Or, if one side's case is truly hopeless, to an application for summary judgment.
Procedural defects the law treats as curable aren't fatal here. If someone questions the authority of the officer who signed or verified the plaint, that can be ratified. The Supreme Court held in United Bank of India v. Naresh Kumar (1996) that such defects in a company's pleadings are curable. A missing or defective statement of truth under Order VI Rule 15A has consequences of its own, striking out of the pleading among them, and our guide on why a wrong statement of truth can hurt you covers those. Documents left out of the Order XI disclosure aren't a reason to reject the plaint either. The consequence is worse, frankly. You can't rely on them later without the court's leave.
How a rejection application actually plays out
Broadly the same sequence applies in the Delhi district commercial courts, in the Delhi High Court's Commercial Division, and in the commercial courts serving Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Gurugram and Faridabad.
Scrutiny when you file
The registry checks court fee, valuation, the statement of truth, the document index, and either the Section 12A non-starter report or the urgent relief application. A lot of defects get caught at this point and come back as objections, with a short time to cure them. Cure them properly and you avoid a later application on the same point.
The judge's first look
At the first listing the judge reads the plaint. Where the lack of Section 12A mediation is obvious and no genuine urgency is pleaded, the court can reject the plaint on its own. More often it issues summons and leaves the objections to the defendant.
The defendant's application
The defendant moves under Order VII Rule 11, usually with its written statement or before it. The application has to point at the plaint itself, not at the defendant's story. Documents from the defendant's side generally aren't looked at.
Reply and arguments
The plaintiff replies, often briefly, showing where in the plaint each fact appears. Arguments run on the plaint and its documents. Courts usually deal with the application before going any further, on the footing that a suit which should end ought to end early.
A reasoned order
Under Rule 12 the court allows or dismisses the application with reasons. If it's allowed, the suit ends and a decree is drawn up. If it's dismissed, the suit moves on to admission and denial of documents and the case management hearing under Order XVA.
All this while, the commercial court timelines keep ticking. Neither side gets a pause button from a rejection application.
Defendants: file for rejection, but watch day 120
If you've been sued and the plaint has a real defect, a rejection application is often the cheapest way out. It's decided on paper. No witnesses. And the order comes quickly compared with a trial. What it doesn't do is buy you time for the written statement. In a commercial suit that's due within 30 days of service of summons, extendable with costs to 120 days at most, after which the right is forfeited (SCG Contracts v. K.S. Chamankar, 2019). In IDBI Trusteeship Services v. Manish Jain (March 2026), the Delhi High Court refused to let a rejection application filed after the 120 days revive a defendant's lost right, relying on R.K. Roja v. U.S. Rayudu (2016).
So file both. The rejection application, and a complete written statement with your own documents, inside the time limit. If the application succeeds, nobody ever needs the written statement. If it fails, your defence is still intact. Our guide on the 120-day written statement deadline explains how the days are counted.
When a defence file comes to Advocate B.K. Singh, he splits the true rejection grounds from the merits defence on the first read. A rejection application stuffed with factual disputes is weaker than a short one that points to two paragraphs of the plaint and one date. A tight application also reads better if the matter goes up on appeal. For the wider defence plan after summons, see our page on how to defend a commercial suit.
Check these before filing, so the plaint gets through
To show a cause of action
- Purchase orders, work orders or the signed agreement, all in the name of the correct legal entity
- Invoices, delivery challans, e-way bills, and goods receipt notes or completion certificates
- Your ledger statement, plus any account confirmation the customer signed
- If you're suing a director or guarantor: the personal guarantee, deed of undertaking or director's letter
To deal with limitation
- A date-wise table of invoices, due dates and the three-year date for each one
- Signed acknowledgments, like balance confirmations, emails from the customer's authorised officer or settlement letters
- Proof of every part payment, with the date and the bank reference
- Your Section 12A mediation dates, so that period can be excluded
For Section 12A, or for urgency
- The non-starter or failure report from the Legal Services Authority
- If you're claiming urgency, something that shows real risk: a notice of sale of assets, stock being diverted, infringement that's still going on
- A draft interim application that matches the urgency your plaint pleads
Valuation, fee and form
- Your interest working up to the filing date, with the rate and where it comes from (contract or law)
- Court fee worked out on the state's current schedule
- A board resolution or authority letter for whoever signs and verifies
- The statement of truth and the Order XI declaration of documents
Plaint rejected: appeal, or file again?
An order rejecting a plaint is a deemed decree under Section 2(2) of the CPC, so you can appeal it like a final judgment. In a commercial matter, the appeal goes under Section 13(1A) of the Commercial Courts Act to the Commercial Appellate Division of the High Court. You have 60 days. In MITC Rolling Mills v. Renuka Realtors (2025), the Supreme Court confirmed that such an appeal is maintainable and that a plaintiff whose plaint is rejected shouldn't be left with no remedy. Our page on the commercial appeal covers filing and the stay question.
Rule 13 is the other route. You file a fresh plaint on the same cause of action, with the defect fixed. Which route is better depends almost entirely on limitation. Suppose the plaint was rejected for want of Section 12A mediation and the claim still has a year of limitation left. Mediating and refiling is usually quicker and cheaper than appealing, and the mediation time is excluded from limitation anyway. But if limitation has run out in the meantime, the appeal may be your only door. Then you'll have to argue that the rejection was wrong in law.
It's different the other way round. If the court refuses to reject the plaint, that order is interlocutory. It isn't on the Order XLIII list of appealable orders, and Section 8 of the Commercial Courts Act bars a civil revision against any interlocutory order of a commercial court. That leaves a petition under Article 227 of the Constitution, which High Courts entertain sparingly. Or you raise the point in an appeal against the final decree.
An invented example: the injunction that wasn't urgent
This one's invented. A packaging unit in Sector 63, Noida sells corrugated boxes to an FMCG distributor in Karol Bagh. By March 2024 the distributor owes Rs 46 lakh across 31 invoices. Its last part payment was in January 2023. In October 2024 the unit sues in Delhi, skips mediation, and tacks on a prayer restraining the distributor from 'creating third party rights' in its warehouse stock. The plaint says nothing about any attempt to sell the business or shift stock. Not a word.
The distributor moves under Order VII Rule 11(d). Section 12A bars the suit, it says, because the urgency is a pretext. The court agrees. It's a pure money claim, the debt has been sitting unpaid for months, and nothing in the plaint suggests urgency. The plaint is rejected in April 2025.
The unit then has a choice to make. With the last payment in January 2023, limitation on the older invoices runs out in January 2026. It decides against an appeal. Within a week it applies to the District Legal Services Authority for pre-institution mediation. The distributor doesn't show up, and a non-starter report issues. In June 2025 the unit refiles with a cleaner plaint, a limitation table and the mediation report. The cost was about eight months and one court fee. Had it dithered for many more months, the earliest invoices would have slipped out of time for good.
Delhi, UP or Haryana, supplier or startup: does the risk change?
The law doesn't change. Order VII Rule 11 and Section 12A are central law and apply in every commercial court. What changes is the route to mediation and how fussy the registry is. In Delhi, pre-institution mediation for district-level suits runs through the District Legal Services Authorities, and for suits above Rs 2 crore on the High Court's original side, through the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee. In Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar it's the UP District Legal Services Authority for the district. In Gurugram and Faridabad, the Haryana DLSA. Apply to the authority that matches the court where you'll file, and keep the report on record.
Delhi High Court e-filing scrutiny is thorough, and defects get flagged before listing. District registries are less predictable. Don't assume a plaint is safe because it got through scrutiny. As Saleem Bhai makes clear, the defendant and the judge can still raise Rule 11 at any stage.
Suppliers and service firms usually trip on two things: limitation on older invoices, and claims against directors. Lenders who made inter-corporate loans need to plead the loan document and the demand date precisely. For a loan payable on demand, limitation runs from the date of the loan under Article 21, unless the agreement says otherwise. Startups suing big clients should expect a Section 12A counter-attack, because those clients have in-house teams that file rejection applications as routine. And when large companies are the plaintiff, they most often stumble on authorisation. The board resolution or power of attorney for the signatory should be dated before the plaint.
How plaintiffs hand the other side a rejection application
- Claiming urgency you can't show. A token injunction prayer to dodge mediation is the commonest way to get a plaint rejected. If there's no real urgency, mediate first.
- Leaving limitation for the defendant to find. Any invoice older than three years needs the acknowledgment or part payment that saves it pleaded, with its date and the document.
- Adding parties with nothing against them. Directors, group companies and guarantors need facts pleaded against them personally. If not, they'll be struck off and you'll likely pay costs.
- Suing as the wrong entity. An unregistered firm, a brand name, or a proprietor signing as if he were a company. Each one invites a barred-by-law objection.
- Undervaluing to save on court fee. The court fixes a date to make up the shortfall, and it very rarely moves that date.
- Relying on a document you didn't file. If the acknowledgment or guarantee isn't on record with the plaint, the court won't assume it exists.
- Forgetting the related defects. Plenty of plaints survive Rule 11 and then hit other technical objections. Our guide on why commercial suits get dismissed on technical grounds puts them all in one place.
What the rejection stage costs in time and money
| Stage | How long it usually takes | What it costs (lawyer fees separate) |
|---|---|---|
| Section 12A mediation before filing | Up to 3 months, extendable by 2 months with consent. Often quicker if the defendant doesn't appear | The mediation fee under the Legal Services Authority's rules, usually modest. Check the current amount |
| Registry scrutiny and objections | Anywhere from a few days to a few weeks | Nothing beyond refiling, plus any stamp shortfall they find |
| Order to make good court fee or valuation | Whatever date the court fixes, often 1 to 4 weeks | The balance ad valorem court fee on the current state schedule |
| Rejection application: reply and arguments | Often 2 to 8 months, depending on how busy the court's board is | Costs are possible if the application is frivolous, or if the plaint is rejected |
| Appeal against rejection | Has to be filed within 60 days. The hearing spreads over several months | Court fee on the memorandum of appeal. Check the current schedule |
| Fresh suit after fixing the defect | As soon as it's fixed, within limitation | A fresh court fee. Don't count on a refund of the old one |
What to do this week
If you're about to sue, read your draft plaint the way the defendant's lawyer will. Check four things. Is there a mediation report, or genuine urgency? Is every invoice within three years, or saved by a pleaded acknowledgment? Does every defendant have facts pleaded against it? Does the valuation include interest up to filing? Fix whatever fails before you file. A rejection costs more in time than in money, and time is the one thing a recovery claim can't buy back. The full checklist is on our page on drafting a commercial suit.
If you're the defendant, mark the 120-day date first. Then decide whether a short, plaint-focused rejection application is worth filing alongside your written statement. If your plaint's already been rejected, work out the limitation date for each part of the claim today. That's what decides between appeal and refiling.
If you'd like your plaint, the rejection application against you, or the rejection order looked at before you decide what to do next, share it with Advocate B.K. Singh's team through the contact page.
Frequently asked questions
Can a commercial court reject a plaint on its own, without anyone applying?
Yes. Order VII Rule 11 puts the duty on the court, so it doesn't have to wait for the defendant. In Patil Automation the Supreme Court said a plaint filed without mandatory Section 12A mediation can be rejected by the court on its own. In practice, though, most rejections still come on a defendant's application.
Can the plaint be rejected after the written statement is in, or after issues are framed?
Yes. The Supreme Court has said the power can be used at any stage of the suit, before the trial ends. A late application is still decided on the plaint alone. But courts may take a dimmer view of one that was held back for tactical reasons.
Do I get my court fee back if the plaint is rejected?
Usually not. Court fee refund provisions are built around settlement and referral to mediation or Lok Adalat. Rejection isn't covered. Treat the fee as spent and budget for a fresh one if you refile. Ask your lawyer whether any state provision helps in your case.
Can I amend the plaint to avoid rejection?
Often, yes. Defects in pleading, valuation or parties can be fixed through an amendment application under Order VI Rule 17 if you move fast, and courts usually consider a pending amendment before rejecting. Missing Section 12A mediation is the exception. Neither an amendment nor mediating after filing cures it, because the bar applies on the date of institution.
If my claim against one director fails, does the whole plaint go?
It doesn't. A plaint can't be rejected in part, as the Supreme Court held in Sejal Glass (2018). If there's a cause of action against the main debtor, the rejection application fails. The court may instead strike off the wrongly added director under Order I Rule 10.
Does a pending rejection application stop the trial?
Courts generally decide it before moving to trial, since a suit that should end ought to end early. It doesn't pause any other deadline, the written statement timeline included. Keep complying with every order while it's pending.
Can a summary suit plaint be rejected under Order 7 Rule 11?
Yes. A summary suit under Order XXXVII is still a suit. The same grounds apply, limitation and the Section 12A bar (where no urgent interim relief is contemplated) included. Summary procedure doesn't exempt the plaint from any of these checks.
How long does a rejection application usually take in Delhi courts?
It depends on the court's board and on how many adjournments the parties ask for. In district commercial courts, two to eight months from filing the application to the order is common. The Commercial Division may be quicker or slower, depending on the roster. If the point is clear, push for a short reply schedule.
Advocate B.K. Singh
Founder of B.K. Singh & Associates. MCA, LL.B., LL.M. More than twenty years in practice before the Supreme Court, the Delhi High Court, district and commercial courts in Delhi NCR, and tribunals.
This guide explains the law in general terms and is not legal advice. For advice on your own papers, contact the team.