1986 Supreme(SC) 281
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
A.P. SEN AND B.C. RAY, JJ.
Valivety Ramakrishnaiah, Appellant
Versus
Totakura Rangarao, Respondent.
Civil Appeal No. 2051 of 1980
Decided on 29-8-1986.
J.M.Khanna, R.N.KAPOOR, R.NAGARATNAM, T.K.KRISHNAMURTHI IYER
Headnote:Code of civil Procedure O. 21 R. 64, 66 - Sale Proclamation giving three valuations, one put by Decree-holder, the other by Judgment debtor and the third by Court An in - The sale was to be held 'subject to charge of another decree' was ordered to be deleted - Several bidders came for bid and they had knowledge of the fact that court had ordered deletion of 'subject to charge of another decree; - No irregularity in conducting auction sale. (Para 4 & 5)
Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 11 - Objection of judgment-debtor to put the property to sale in four lots rejected by the court - Order becoming final as no appeal was taken against the order - Judgment debtor can not re-agitate the matter. (para 5)
JUDGMENT
RAY J. :— We have heard the arguments advanced on behalf of the appellant and after considering the facts and circumstances of the case we have dismissed the appeal by our order dated 20-8-1986. The reasons for the dismissal of the appeal are stated herein below. This appeal on special leave arises out of the judgment and order dated 25th October, 1976 in Letters Patent Appeal No. 3 of 1976. The judgment-debtor made an application for setting aside the sale held on 17-4-1972 under Order 21, Rule 90 of the Code of Civil Procedure alleging, inter alia, that there was no proper sale proclamation drawn up as it was stated therein that the sale of the attached property will be subject to decree in O.S, No. 282/68, that the valuation put on the sale proclamation was low, that is, Rs. 15,000/-for each lot and the judgment-debtors valuation of the property of Rs. 1,40,000/-was not put in and for this material irregularity the property was sold at a low price of Rs. 24,000/-. It was further alleged that the decretal amount for which the attached property was put to sale was about Rs. 7,660/-and costs Rs. 846.75 paise and one fourth portion of the property would have been sufficient for fetching that amount instead of putting 1/2 portion of the property to sale. The Trial Court by its judgment and order dated 26th August, 1974 dismissed the application which was registered as E.A. No. 849/79 and held that there was no material irregularity in the matter of drawing of the sale proclamation and also in publishing the same. It was further held that in the sale proclamation both valuations put by the decree-holder as well as by the judgment-debtor were mentioned and the valuation made by the Amin of the Court was also put in there as required under the provisions of Order 21, Rule 66 of the Civil Procedure Code. The objection filed by the judgment-debtor that the property should be made into four sub-divisions and they will be put to auction separately and the statement in the proclamation that it is subject to the decree in O.S. No. 282/68 should be deleted were partly allowed by directing deletion of the property subject to charge but rejected the other objection regarding dividing the property in four lots and putting each lot to auction one after another. Thereafter another sale proclamation was drawn up by the decree-holder and it was filed pursuant to the order dated 14-2-1972. The attached property was shown in the sale proclamation in two parts each part being valued at Rs. 15,000/- as per order dated 14-2-1912 on the objection petition filed by the judgment-debtor being No. 214/72. It was further held that the judgment-debtor was a pleaders clerk and on some plea or other he tried to drag on the proceedings. He made applications for time for putting in the decretal amount twice but he didt put in the decretal amount though time was granted and sale was adjourned., Moreover against the order passed on his Objection Petition No. E.A. 215/72 he did not file any appeal. It was further held that there was no irregularity in publishing and conducting the sale and in the sale proclamation Ex. C-1 the decree-holder did not show the sale subject to charge of any decree in O.S. No. 282/68. This fact is also evident from Ex. A-7 the publication of the sale in paper Jagrithi. The, sale proclamation was correctly made. It was further held that the judgment-debtor at the time of the sale drew the attention of the court to Ex. C-2 wherein it was noted that the decree is subject to a charge in O.S. No. 282/68. This was held to be due to some subsequent interpolation made in Ex. C-2. Moreover as soon as it was defected the court explained to the bidders present on the date of sale that there was no charge on the property and the property put to sale was free from charge. The bidders were not misled and the sale fetched the proper price for 1/2 portion of the property at Rs. 24,000/-. It has also been held that none of the witnesses examine