law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  20.Other suits to be
  
  instituted where defendants reside or cause of action arises.-
  Subject to the
  
  limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted in a Court within the
  
  local limits of whose jurisdiction-
  (a) the defendant, or
  
  each of the defendants where there are more than one, at the time of the
  
  commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on
  
  business, or personally works for gain; or
  (b) any of the
  
  defendants, where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of
  
  the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or
  
  personally works for gain, provided that in such case either the leave of the
  
  Court is given, or the defendants who do not reside, or carry on business, or
  
  personally work for gain, as aforesaid, acquiesce in such institution; or
  (c) the cause of
  
  action, wholly or in part, arises.
  Explanation I.- Where a person has a permanent dwelling at one place and also a
  
  temporary residence at another place, he shall be deemed to reside at both
  
  places in respect of any cause of action arising at the place where he has such
  
  temporary residence.
  Explanation II.- A corporation shall be deemed to carry on business at its sole or
  
  principal office in {Subs. by Act 2 of 1951, s.3, for "the States".}
  
  [India] or, in respect of any cause of action arising at any place where it has
  
  also a subordinate office, at such place.
  Illustrations
   
  
  (a) A is a tradesman in Calcutta.B carries on business in Delhi.B, by his agent
  
  in Calcutta, buys goods of A and requests A to deliver them to the East Indian
  
  Railway Company. A delivers the goods accordingly in Calcutta. A may sue B for
  
  the price of the goods either in Calcutta, where the cause of action has
  
  arisen, or in Delhi, where B carries on business.
  (b) A resides at
  
  Simla, B at Calcutta and C at Delhi. A, B and C being together at Benares, B
  
  and C make a joint promissory note payable on demand and deliver it to A.A may
  
  sue B and C at Benares, where the cause of action arose. He may also sue them
  
  at Calcutta, where B resides, or at Delhi. There C resides; but in each of
  
  these cases, if the non-resident defendant objects, the suit cannot proceed
  
  without the leave of the Court.