COMPETENCE OF AN ACTION/A SUIT - Importance of the issue of competence; whether the issue of competence must be resolved first before the merits of a case once raised in an action
HELD:
"Let me iterate that the issue of competence of an action and jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the same are threshold in nature and once an issue of jurisdiction is raised it has to be resolved first before anything else.
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