No Court shall proceed with the trial of any in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the same title where such is pending in the same or any other Court in 1[India] have jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in any Court beyond the limits of 1[India] established or continued by 2[the Central Government 3* * *.] and having like jurisdiction, or before 4[the Supreme Court].
Explanation.--The pendency of a in a foreign Court does not preclude the Courts in 1[India] from trying a founded on the same cause of action.
