Set-off or counter-claim

A written statement pleading a set-off or counter-claim shall be chargeable with fee in the same manner as a plaint. Copy of any document liable to stamp duty under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, when substituted by any party to a suit or proceeding in place of the original withdrawn- (a) When the stamp duty chargeable on the original does not exceed fifty naye paise; The amount of the duty chargeable on the original. (b) in any other case. One rupee.