CPC Order 41 Rule 20 — Power to adjourn hearing and direct persons appearing interested to be made respondents

[(1)] Where it appears to the Court at the hearing that any person who was a party to the suit in the Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred, but who has not been made a party to the appeal, is interested in the result of the appeal, the Court may adjourn the hearing to a future day to be fixed by the Court and direct that such person be made a respondent. 3. Rule 20 re-numbered as sub-rule (1) by Act 104 of 1976, s. 87 (w.e.f. 1-2-1977). [(2) No respondent shall be added under this rule, after the expiry of the period of limitation for appeal, unless the Court, for reasons to be recorded, allows that to be done, on such terms as to costs as it thinks fit.]