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2001 Supreme(AP) 18

Andhra Pradesh High Court
Judges : D.S.R.VERMA
Pothuganti Venkateshwarulu - Appellant
Versus
Yangala Mallaiah - Respondent
CRP.No.5074/2000
Decided On : 01-18-01
Advocates Appeared :
Mr.D. Domadar Reddy, Mr.P. Venugopal Rao

Headnote:PROVINCIAL INSOLVENCY ACT, 1920, Secs.28 (2) & 52 - CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE, Or.38, Rule 5 - DHr obtained attachment order in respect of properties shown in B schedule of Insolvency petition filed by JDr - Executing court passing order for proclamation of sale of properties inspite of the fact of filing I.P brought to its notice - No order passed by Insolvency Court u/S.52 and properties are still covered by order of attachment - Mere knowledge of filing insolvency petition does not preclude decree holder from getting decree executed - Mere notice of insolvency shall not operate as a bar to decree holder from proceeding with sale of property - Until court passed an order u/S.52 appointing receiver, property of insolvent is not divested from him and every creditor has right of realization of debt - Sec.28(2) disables creditor to have remedy only after order of adjudication.

D. S. R. VARMA, J.

( 1 ) THIS civil revision petition is filed against the order dated 17-11-2000 in E. P. No. 115 of 2000 in O. S. No. 24 of 2000 passed by the Senior Civil Judge, Miryalaguda ordering proclamation of sale of the schedule properties of the petitioners/judgment-debtors which were attached before judgment vide order dated 8-6-2000 in I. A. No. 256 of 2000 in O. S. No. 24 of 2000 for realization of the decretal amount of Rs. 2,37,962. 00.

( 2 ) IT is contended by the learned counsel for the petitioners that since the petitioners could not discharge their debts I. P. No. 11 of 2000 on the file of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Rangareddi was filed and in the said insolvency petition the petitioners were also shown as parties and in spite of the said fact of filing the insolvency petition the respondent/decree-holder filed the present E. P. No. 115 of 2000 and obtained an attachment order in respect of some of the properties mentioned in B schedule. It is further submitted that the insolvency petition was filed even before the impugned order by the Court below was passed. Therefore, it is contended that the respondent/decree-holder with the knowledge that I. P. No. 11 of 2000 was already filed got attached the above properties and obtained ex-parte decree. It is further submitted that the fact that the E. P. schedule properties are the subject-matter of the said insolvency petition was also brought to the notice of the Court below and in spite of which the impugned order for proclamation of the sale of the properties was passed against which the present civil revision petition is filed.

( 3 ) ON the other hand, the learned counsel appearing for the respondent/decree- holder submitted that no doubt I. P. No. 11 of 2000 was filed but there was no order passed by the Court before which the insolvency proceedings are pending exercising power under S. 52 of the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920. Therefore, the properties are still covered by the order of attachment passed by the Court below. He further submitted that merely because I. P. No. 11 of 2000 was filed the right of the creditor would not wither away. In support of his contention he placed reliance on the judgment rendered in Kuppu Boyan v. Sengottaiyan, AIR 1983 Madras 314, wherein it was held as follows (para 6):"just because the judgment-debtor has filed an insolvency petition before the insolvency Court it cannot be said that the execution proceedings should be stayed. In this case it was not stated that the properties of the petitioners were taken by the official liquidator in pursuance of the order of the insolvency Court nor the order of the insolvency Court was brought to the notice of the executing Court. "

( 4 ) THE said judgment was rendered relying upon a decision in Ponnudurai v. Kumaraswami Mudaliar (1971) 2 Mad LJ 252, wherein it was held as :"section 52 will have no application when a Receiver had not been appointed in respect of the insolvent s properties. So an executing Court while executing a decree passed against the insolvent need not stay its hands merely on the admission of an insolvency petition. "

( 5 ) IN another judgment in Mamidi Chinna Venkata Sivayya v. Nekkanti Suryanarayana, AIR 1938 Madras 906 it was observed as follows :"under S. 28 (2) of the Provincial Insolvency Act, on the making of an order of adjudication, the whole of the property of the insolvent vests in the Court or in an Official Receiver appointed by the Court but until then the property of the insolvent is not divested from him and every creditor is free to have recourse to all available remedies against the debtor for realization of his debt. The section clearly provides that the disability of the minor to have any remedy against the property of the insolvent is only after the order of adjudication. "in the said judgment it was further held as follows :"there is nothing in the provisions of the Insolvency Act to preclude a decree-holder from proceeding with the sal




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