JUDGMENT

Mini Pushkarna, J.

I.A. 17975/2019 (under Order VII Rule 11 read with Section 151 CPC)

1. The present application has been filed on behalf of defendant under Order 7 Rule 11 read with Section 151 CPC praying for rejection of the plaint of the plaintiff as being barred by limitation and there being no valid cause of action arising in favour of the plaintiff against the defendant.

2. The facts relevant for the present adjudication are that the plaintiff had issued Advertisement No. 02/2012 inviting applications from eligible candidates for 558 vacancies in 33 cadres/posts of Junior Executives, Manager and Deputy General Manager/Deputy Company Secretary, respectively against which a total number of 1,35,367 candidates registered for various posts.

3. The plaintiff vide letter dated 10.07.2012 engaged the defendant to conduct the recruitment process pursuant to Advertisement No.02/2012 on mutually agreed scope of work i.e. development of bilingual objective type paper consisting of 100 questions, fee of the OMR Sheet, processing results and generation of/supply of category-wise list and Test Administration Costs, printing of attendance sheet, honorarium payable to the Chief T