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1966 Supreme(SC) 335

J.M.SHELAT, K.N.WANCHOO, R.S.BACHAWAT
Prem Ballabh Khulbe – Appellant
Versus
Mathura Datt Bhatt – Respondent


Advocates:
C.B.AGARWAL, K.P.GUPTA, M.S.Gupta, S.G.PATVARDHAN, Yashpal Singh

Judgement

BACHAWAT, J. : The appellant, the respondent and two other persons carried on business in partnership under the name and style of Nayagaon Firm. The respondent was the managing partner and was incharge of the partnership assets. The firm was dissolved and a suit was instituted by the appellant for the taking of the accounts of the dissolved firm. Eventually a final decree was passed in the suit in favour of the appellant against the respondent for Rs. 17,143/ 11/0 and Rs. 3,171/6 as on account of costs. The appellant applied for execution of the decree by arrest and detention of the respondent in prison. In his affidavit in support of the application, the appellant relied upon the grounds mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) of the proviso to S 51 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908. At the hearing of the application those grounds were not pressed but his counsel relied upon the ground mentioned in Cl. (c) of the - proviso. By Cl. (c) of the proviso to .S. 51 the Court is empowered to order execution of the money decree by detention of the judgment debtor in prison if it is satisfied "that the decree is for a sum for which the judgment debtor was bound in a fiduciary capacity










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