The Supreme Court questioned the legal basis for claiming exemption from court fees while hearing a plea challenging a Gujarat High Court ruling. The High Court had upheld the rejection of waqf suits filed without payment of the prescribed court fees.
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a plaint can be rejected under Order VII Rule 11 CPC only when it is clearly time-barred from the plaint itself. If limitation depends on disputed facts about when the cause of action arose, the issue must be decided after trial, not at the threshold stage.
Gujarat High Court ruled that “Foreign law cannot dissolve marriage under Hindu Marriage Act.” The judgment clarifies that divorces obtained abroad have no legal effect in India for marriages registered under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
