Key Points: - Eviction suit filed in 2005 on ground of personal necessity for manager's office in building with apartments and shops [8000236710001] (!) - Defendant questioned personal necessity in written statement, alleging suit filed due to rent refusal and pattern of evicting for higher rent/pagari (!) (!) (!) - Interrogatories filed by defendant after plaintiff closed evidence and during defendant's evidence, seeking details on prior tenancy of Ranchers company, eviction, rents, and current tenant (!) (!) (!) [8000236710003][8000236710004][8000236710005] - Trial court rejected interrogatories as irrelevant to framed issues (!) - Interrogatories held belated, beyond defendant's case, and not reasonably connected to matters in question per Order 11 Rule 1 CPC; cannot test credibility like cross-examination (!) (!) (!) [8000236710006] - In personal necessity eviction, defendant can question necessity but inquiries into prior tenants, evictions, or rents are irrelevant absent plea of repeated false necessity [8000236710007] - Civil revision dismissed; no jurisdictional error in rejecting interrogatories [8000236710008] - Suit directed to be disposed within six months for expeditious resolution [8000236710011][8000236710012]

What is the appropriate timing for filing interrogatories in an eviction suit?

What are the permissible scope of interrogatories under Order 11 Rule 1 CPC in an eviction suit on personal necessity grounds?