The Bombay high court recently said that in today’s times, electronic money transfers and payments can be effected from anywhere in the world. The observation came in a suit for money filed before it by PVR.
The HC held, “Merely because the details of the receiving bank are within the jurisdiction of another city, this fact alone would not mean that the amounts are payable in that city and that part of the cause of action had arisen in that city.”
A single-judge bench of Justice Arif Doctor directed Proteus Ventures, a start-up LLP, to pay Rs. 1.10 crore to PVR. The multiplex chain had sought a decree from the high court, citing invoices, for the amount due from Proteus for advertisements screened in its multiplexes between December 2019 and February 2020.
The LLP filed an application and challenged the suit filed by PVR before the Bombay high court. It sought the suit’s rejection on the ground that only the Delhi high court had the jurisdiction. The judge dismissed the application.
PVR had made Proteus partners Shardul Bayas and Abhinay Deo parties to the suit. The two partners sought deletion of their names as defendants.
