Costs
Full Text
Where, under rule 2 or rule 2A the Government or any other authority is added as a defendant in a suit, the Attorney-General, Advocate-General, or Government Pleader or Government or other authority shall not be entitled to, or liable for, costs in the Court which ordered the addition unless the Court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case for any special reason, otherwise orders.
Plain English Summary
Immunizes the Government, statutory authorities, and Law Officers added under Rules 2 and 2A from liability for costs or entitlement to costs, except where the court expressly directs otherwise for recorded special reasons.
Key Legal Elements
- Cost Immunity: No entitlement to costs and no liability to pay costs.
- Entities Covered: Attorney-General, Advocate-General, Government Pleader, Government, and statutory authorities.
- Judicial Exception: Court may award costs only by recording explicit 'special reasons'.
- Public Policy Rationale: Protects public authorities intervening solely to clarify questions of law from vexatious cost burdens.
Practical Note
Resisting Cost Orders Against Intervening Authorities: If the trial court, after invalidating an ambiguous government circular, imposes heavy compensatory costs on the impleaded Government or statutory board, cite Rule 3 in appeal or review. The general statutory rule prohibits awarding costs against a statutory intervenor unless an exceptional finding of mala fides is recorded with special reasons.
हिंदी पाठ
जहां नियम 2 या नियम 2क के अधीन सरकार या किसी अन्य प्राधिकारी को किसी वाद में प्रतिवादी के रूप में संयोजित किया जाता है, वहां महान्यायवादी, महाधिवक्ता या शासकीय प्लीडर अथवा सरकार या अन्य प्राधिकारी उस न्यायालय में, जिसने ऐसा संयोजन का आदेश दिया था, खर्चों (Costs) के न तो हकदार होंगे और न दायी होंगे, जब तक कि न्यायालय मामले की सभी परिस्थितियों को ध्यान में रखते हुए किसी विशेष कारण से अन्यथा आदेश न दे।