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2001 Supreme(AP) 219

Andhra Pradesh High Court
Judges : V.V.S.RAO
Meghraj Gayatri Devi - Appellant
Versus
Jetling Rajeshwar - Respondent
CRP.4824/97
Decided On : 03-05-01
Advocates Appeared :
Mr.Bankatlalmandhani, Mr.T.S. Anand

Headnote:CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE, Or39, R7 - Suit for permanent injunction - Ex parte ad interim injunction granted and later made absolute - Rule 7 of Or39 empowers court to make an order for detention, preservation and inspection of any property which is subject matter of suit or as to which any question may arise in the suit - When a person is stated to be in possession of residential house he shall be deemed to be in possession of all movables in relation to the house as well as immovable attachments in the house - Unless defendant properly pleads and proves at earliest stage regarding any such movables or immovables attached to immovable property, no defendant can be heard of saying that his belongings are laying in the disputed property - CRP allowed

V. V. S. RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the plaintiff. Aggrieved by the order dated 28-10-1997 in I. A. No. 765 of 1997 in O. S. No. 669 of 1993 on the file of the learned II Additional District Munsif, Warangal, the present revision under S. 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short cpc ) is filed.

( 2 ) THE brief facts are as follows :one Jetling Rajeswar Rao was the owner of the house bearing No. 13-7-121, Matwada, Warangal. After his death, disputes arose between his nephew one J. Rajeswar and his alleged adopted daughter Smt Gayatri Bai. The latter, the petitioner herein filed a suit for injunction being O. S. No. 669 of 1993 on the file of the Court of the II Additional District Munsif, Warangal. She also filed an application under Order 39, Rules 1 and 2, CPC being I. A. No. 1166 of 1993. Initially, an ex parte ad interim injunction was granted and later the same was made absolute. Aggrieved by the same, the defendant carried the matter in appeal being CMA No. 78 of 1994 and the same was dismissed on 16-7-1996. By virtue of the injunction, the defendant did not interfere with the possession of the plaintiff.

( 3 ) ON 1-10-1997, the defendant filed I. A. No. 765 of 1997 purporting it to be under Order 39, Rule 7, CPC. In this application, he prayed the lower Court for a direction to preserve the property allegedly belonging to him by removing them from the first and ground floor rooms of the suit schedule property. In the accompanying affidavit it is alleged that though the matter is settled by mediators, the plaintiff is continuing the suit, that part of the suit house is in his exclusive possession and his household articles, cooking implements etc. are in the house. He also alleged that the municipal corporation of Warangal and Kakatiya Urban Development Authority marked out a portion of the building for demolition in the drive for widening the roads and if the articles are not removed and kept in safe custody, they would be damaged. The application was opposed by the petitioner herein inter alia contending that taking advantage of the absence of the plaintiff, the defendant intruded into the plaint schedule property. She filed IA No. 462 of 1994 seeking mandatory injunction to remove the locks put up by the defendant in April, 1994 and that after filing I. A. No. 463 of 1994, the defendant himself removed the locks and therefore the said I. A. was not pursued further. She also alleged that the Municipal Corporation of Warangal or Kakatiya Urban Development Authority never gave any notice and in fact the defendant himself gave a consent letter though he is not concerned with the suit schedule house. The applicability of Order 39, Rule 7, CPC to the facts of the case was also disputed.

( 4 ) BY the impugned order, the learned trial Judge allowed the application and appointed an Advocate Commissioner with a direction to open the rooms of the first and second floors, prepare a list of articles present in those rooms and hand over the articles to the defendant which he claims and prepare a list of articles the hand over of which is objected by the plaintiff.

( 5 ) SRI Bankatlal Mandhani, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Order 39, Rule 7 has no application to the facts of the case. It is further submitted that the order of injunction in I. A. No. 1160 of 1993 has become final when ultimately the appellate Court by order dated 16-7-1996 dismissed the CMA. The defendant never took a plea as is now raised in I. A. No. 765 of 1997 either in the written statement or in the counter or in the grounds of appeal in the earlier interlocutory proceedings for injunction. As an afterthought, by creating a letter of consent, he approached the Court and the Court below has committed error in giving a blanket order to the Advocate Commissioner to prepare a list of articles and hand over those articles to the defendant, which allegedly belong to him. The order of the learned trial Judge is wholly unsustainable and






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