UCO BANK AND ANR. Vs. SUKHWANT SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order disposes of four connected revision petitions Nos. 1491 to 1494 of 1990 as these are directed against different but similar orders passed by the trial. Court.

(2.) VIDE these orders, the claim of the Plaintiff -Petitioner Bank under Section 124 of the Indian Evidence Act claiming privilege from production of certain documents summoned from it at the instance of the Defendant has been declined. For recording this conclusion the Court found : firstly, the person who had made prayer; for claiming privilege was not a public officer; secondly the claim had been made by the Bank and not by the officer from whom the document had been summoned and thirdly, the disclosure or production of the summoned documents was not likely to injure any public interest.