Plaint is a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed “Plaint” means an application filed under section 10 for the purpose of obtaining an order of adjudication. [Section 2(2) of the Bankruptcy Act, 1997]

Although statements in a plaint are not themselves evidence, the court can consider the statements in the plaint to ascertain what is the case of the plaintiffs and the court could comment on those statement and could draw inferences from those statements. [Md. Bahaluddin & ors. vs. Gulamuddin Md. & ors. (1965) 17 DLR 225]