(1) Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane, or an idiot, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability has ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time specified therefor in the third column of the Schedule.
(2) Where such person is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, affected by two such disabilities, or where, before his disability has ceased, he is affected by another disability, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after both disabilities have ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so specified.
(3) Where the disability continues up to the death of that person, his legal representative may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the death, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so specified.
(4) Where the legal representative referred to in sub-section (3) is, at the date of the death of the person whom he represents, affected by any such disability, the rules contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply.
(5) Where a person under disability dies after the disability ceases but within the period allowed to him under this section, his legal representative may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the death, as would otherwise have been available to that person had he not died.
Explanation.— For the purposes of this section, "minor" includes a child in the womb.
Legal Commentary & Landmark Judgments: Section 6
Section 6 of the Limitation Act, 1963 protects persons suffering from legal disabilities—minority, insanity, or idiocy—at the time when the right to institute a suit or make an application accrues.
Section 6 protects vulnerable litigants under legal disability, suspending the limitation period until minority, insanity, or idiocy has ceased.
Section 6 is personal to the disabled individual and applies solely to suits and execution applications (not appeals). When instituting a suit after attaining majority, the plaint must contain specific pleadings asserting the date of birth, proof of minority, and the date of cessation of disability to establish that the suit is filed within the three-year window under Section 8.