Code of Civil Procedure Part VI: Compensation for obtaining arrest, attachment or injunction on insufficient grounds

(1) Where, in any suit in which an arrest or attachment has been effected or a temporary injunction granted under the last receding section, –

(a) it appears to the Court that such arrest, attachment or injunction was and for on insufficient grounds, or

(b) the suit of the plaintiff fails and it appears to the Court that there was no reasonable or probable ground for instituting the same, the defendant may apply to the Court, and the Court may, upon such application, award against the plaintiff by its order such amount, not exceeding one thousand rupees, as it deems a reasonable compensation to the defendant for the expense or injury caused to him:

Provided that a Court shall not award, under this section, an amount exceeding the limits of its pecuniary jurisdiction.

(2) An order determining any such application shall bar any suit for compensation in respect of such arrest, attachment or injunction.