Andhra Pradesh High Court
Judges : R.BAYAPU REDDY
Kancherla Ram Mohan - Appellant
Versus
Mogal Ahmed Baig - Respondent
Decided On : 08-05-97
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Sections 47 and 151 - Partition and Separate - When went to effect such delivery petitioner raised an objection before him for delivering possession of 2/3rd share in house to respondent on ground that decree is inexecutable did not therefore execute warrant of delivery entrusted to him - judgment-debtor then approached Court and filed contending that there are permanent structures like Haveli bath-room and also water tap in suit site that Commissioner had no right to effect partition of such properties which are not subject matter of decree that decree passed in suit is inexecutable and as such E - P is liable to be dismissed - After hearing both sides and in view of material available on record learned district Munsif rejected contention of petitioner and dismissed petition observing that property as described in suit and which is subject matter of decree is capable of partition and can be executed and as such petition is not maintainable - Held, Whatever method is adopted it is only to implement process of equitable partition - provisions of Partition Act do not in any way entrench upon undoubted power of Court to effectuate a partition between co-owners in one or other of methods suggested above - Partition Act which was intended to protect smaller sharers in family should not be so read as to obstruct and retard process of partition itself - partition Act is not inconsistent with general power of Court to sell any item of property for its equitable distribution - Such view was also held by this Court in earlier Division Bench decision reported - In present case also as it is felt that suit property is not suitable and convenient for equitable division between parties as per final decree it is just and proper that said property shall be sold in Court auction and proceeds of such sale shall be divided between parties entitled for such share in property - Appeal is allowed.
( 1 ) THIS revision is filed questioning the orders of the Principal District Munsif, cuddapah dated 12-3-1996 passed in E. A. 404/95 in E. P. 61/93 in O. S. No. 249/90 dismissing the said petition filed by the judgment-debtor No. 1, who is the present petitioner.
( 2 ) THE respondent herein had obtained a preliminary decree for partition and separate possession of his 2/3rd share in the suit house and after passing of the ex parte decree on 5-6-91, he filed a petition in LA. 905/92 for passing of final decree. In the said final decree proceedings, an Advocate Commissioner was appointed for effecting division of the suit house for which the respondent herein, who is the decreeholder, is entitled to 2/3rd share while the petitioner herein, who is the first defendant in the suit, is entitled for the remaining 1/3rd share. The Advocate Commissioner visited the suit house and effected partition of the house into three shares and allotted 2/3rd share to the respondent herein and the remaining 1/3rd share to the present petitioner and filed his report along with the plan into Court. The lower Court thereupon passed the final decree allotting 2/3rd share in the house to the respondent and the remaining 1/3rd share to the petitioner herein as per the partition effected by the Advocate-Commissioner. Thereupon, the respondent filed E. P. 61/93 for delivery of possession of the 2/3rd share in the house allotted to him in the final decree proceedings. When the Amin went to effect such delivery, the petitioner raised an objection before him for delivering possession of the 2/3rd share in the house to the respondent on the ground that the decree is inexecutable. The Amin did not, therefore, execute the warrant of delivery entrusted to him. The judgment-debtor No. 1, then approached the Court and filed E. A. 404/95 under Sec. 47 and Sec. 151 C. P. C. contending that there are permanent structures like Haveli (House), bath-room and also water tap in the suit site; that the Commissioner had no right to effect partition of such properties which are not the subject matter of the decree; that the decree passed in the suit is inexecutable and as such the E. P. is liable to be dismissed. After hearing both sides and in view of the material available on record, the learned district Munsif rejected the contention of the petitioner and dismissed the petition observing that the property as described in the suit and which is the subject matter of the decree is capable of partition and can be executed and as such, the petition is not maintainable. Aggrieved by such orders, the judgment debtor No. 1, who is the present petitioner, has filed the present revision.
( 3 ) HEARD both the counsel.
( 4 ) IT is seen from a perusal of the description of the decree schedule that the said property is said to consist of a site measuring 60 North to South and 15 East to West along with a dilapidated house in that site. When the Advocate- commissioner visited the house in the final decree proceedings for effecting partition, there was a Haveli existing in that site along with a water tap and a bath-room. The Advocate-Commissioner effected division of the property into three shares and allotted the portion marked as "aeghfd" including the bath-room portion marked as "kimd" in the plan, to the respondent-decree holder and the remaining portion shown as "cbgh" to the petitioner herein towards his 1/3rd share. The contention of the petitioner herein is that the haveli existing in the suit house (sic. site) is a very small one and the entire site itself is measuring only 15 East to West and 60 North to South and that if such Haveli is divided into three portions and one portion is allotted to the petitioner towards his 1/3rd share, it will not be suitable and convenient for him to stay and enjoy such house and that, therefore, the lower Court ought not to have divided the property into three shares and allotted the portions to the respective shares of
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