MR ANKIT GUPTA vs M/S GANPATI TRADING CO & ANR.

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$~58 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + RFA(COMM) 203/2026 & CM APPL. 33944/2026 MR ANKIT GUPTA .....Appellant Through: Mr. Piyush Gupta, Adv. versus M/S GANPATI TRADING CO & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Harshit Bansal, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 19.05.2026 C. HARI SHANKAR J. 1. This appeal is directed against an order passed by the Learned District Judge (Commercial Court-02)1 on an application filed by the respondents as the defendants before the learned Commercial Court in the suit under Order VII Rule 112 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1 “the learned Commercial Court” hereinafter 2 11. Rejection of plaint.—The plaint shall be rejected in the following cases:— (a) where it does not disclose a cause of action; (b) where the relief claimed is undervalued, and the plaintiff, on being required by the Court to correct the valuation within a time to be fixed by the Court, fails to do so; (c) where the relief claimed is properly valued but the plaint is written upon paper insufficiently stamped, and the plaintiff, on being required by the Court to supply the requisite stamp-paper within a time to be fixed by the Court, fails to do so; (d) where the suit appears from the statement in the plaint to be barred by any law; (e) where it is not filed in duplicate; (f) where the plaintiff fails to comply with the provisions of Rule 9; Provided that the time fixed by the Court for the correction of the valuation or supplying of the requisite stamp-papers shall not be extended unless the Court, for reasons to be recorded, is satisfied that the plaintiff was prevented by any cause of an exceptional nature from correcting the valuation or supplying the requisite stamp-papers, as the case may be