CPC 79 — Suits by or against Government

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Statutory text

[79. Suits by or against Government.—In a suit by  or against the Government, the authority to be named as plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, shall be—
(a)  in the case of a suit by or against the Central Government,

[the Union of India], and
(b) in the case of a suit by or against a State Government, the State.]

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