CPC - SECTION 10. Stay of suit
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 24[India] having jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in any Court beyond the limits of 24[India] established or continued by 25[the Central Government 26[***] and having like jurisdiction, or before 27[the Supreme Court].
Explanation.-The pendency of a suit in a foreign Court does not preclude the Courts in 24[India] from trying a suit founded on the same cause of action.
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