No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the same title where such suit is pending in the same or any other Court in India have jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in any Court beyond the limits of India established or continued by the Central Government and having like jurisdiction, or before the Supreme Court.
Explanation.-The pendency of a suit in a foreign Court does not preclude the Courts in India from trying a suit founded on the same cause of action.
9 CPC Courts to try all civil suits unless barred
13 CPC When foreign judgment not conclusive
14 CPC Presumption as to foreign judgments
15 CPC Court in which suits to be instituted
16 CPC Suits to be instituted where subject-matter situate
17 CPC Suits for immovable property situate within jurisdiction of different Courts
18 CPC Place of Institution of suit where local limits of jurisdiction of Courts are uncertain
19 CPC Suits for compensation for wrongs to person or movables
20 CPC Other suits to be instituted where defendants reside or cause of action arises