Supreme Court Forms Writ Of Commission

NO. 24 
Writ of Commission  
(S.C.R., Order LIV) 
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA 

[Original Jurisdiction] 

Case No____________________________of  20 __________ 

[State of A.B.]                                     

    [Plaintiff] 

Vs. 

[State of C.D.]                     
To 
            The Commissioner appointed to examine the undermentioned witnesses on behalf of 

    [Defendant] 

            I,________________________________, hereby appoint you and give you full power and authority to swear or affirm and diligently 
to  examine  on___________________interrogatories  and  viva  voce___________________________as  shall  be  produced  before  you  as 
_______________witness(es)______________  on  behalf  of  the  said_________________in  a  certain  Case  No________________________of_________________  now 
pending  in  the  Supreme  Court  (wherein  )  and  I  further  command  you  that  you  do  at  certain  days  and  places  to  be 
appointed by you for that purpose of which reasonable notice shall be given to all parties cause the said witness(es) to 
come before you and then and there examine and cross examine such witness(es) either upon oath or solemn affirmation 
which we hereby give you full power and authority to administer to such witness(es) in the form firstly specified at the 
foot hereof, and that you do take such examination and reduce the same into writing on paper; and when you shall have 
so  taken  the  same  you  are  to  send  the  same  before  the  (returnable  date  as  given  in  the  order  for  the  issue  of  this 
commission) to the Registrar of the said Supreme Court closed up under your Seal together with such documents as shall 
be spoken to and marked exhibits and this writ. 
       And I further empower you to appoint if necessary, a competent interpreter to interpret such of the proceedings under 
this  commission  as  you  may  deem  necessary  to  have  interpreted  from  or  into  the  English  language.  And  I  further 
command  you  that  the  interpreter  employed  in  interpreting  the  depositions  of  the  said  witness(es)  to  be  examined  by 
virtue of this writ shall, before he be permitted to act as such interpreter as aforesaid, take the oath or affirmation lastly 
specified at the foot hereof which I hereby give you power and authority to administer to such interpreter. And I do lastly 
order that parties to this suit do appear before you in person or by their pleaders. 
       Witnesses__________________________,  Chief  Justice  of  India  at  the  Supreme  Court,  New  Delhi,  the  ____________________.day  of 
_________________________ in the year two thousand and ____________________________ Advocate-on-record for ____________ ____________________________ (Names 
of witnesses to be examined) 

_______________. 
Registrar 
NOTE  1-  The  Commissioner  shall  not  be  bound  to  execute  this  commission  unless  such  a  sum  as  he  thinks 
reasonable  be  deposited  with  him  for  the  expenses  of  executing  the  same  and  also  of  summoning  the  witnesses  and 
defraying their travelling and other expenses. 

NOTE 2- After the deposition of any  witness  has been  taken down and before it is  signed by  him,  it shall be 
distinctly read over, and, where necessary, translated to the witness in order that mistakes or omissions may be rectified 
or supplied. The deposition shall be signed by the witness and left with the Commissioner who shall subscribe his name 
and date of the examination. 

I swear in the presence of Almighty God (or solemnly affirm) that the evidence which I shall give in this case 

shall be true, that I will conceal nothing, and that no part of my evidence shall be false. 

Form of the oath or affirmation to be administered to the witness 

Form of the oath or affirmation to be administered to the interpreter 

So help me God. 

I swear in the presence of Almighty God (or solemnly affirm) that I understand and speak the ___________________________ 
and  English  language,  and  that  I  will  well  and  truly  and  faithfully  interpret,  translate  and  explain  to  the  witness  to  be 
produced before the Commissioner, all questions and answers and all such matters as the Commissioner may require me 
to interpret and explain. 

So help me God. 

N.B. The Words “so help me God” are to be omitted when an affirmation is administered. 
The execution of this commission appears by the Schedule hereunto annexed. 

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