VidhiSangh

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Section 79: Suits by or against Government

Part IV — Suits in Particular Cases

79. In a suit by or against the Government, the authority to be named as plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, shall be—

(a) in the case of a suit by or against the Central Government, 4 [the Union of India], and

(b) in the case of a suit by or against a State Government, the State.]

Source: official text of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.