2020 Supreme(AP) 327
IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
C. PRAVEEN KUMAR, J.
Kalapala Narendra Babu - Appellant
Versus
Kalapala Chennakrishniah and Ors. - Respondents
CRP No. 3537 of 2019
Decided On : 22-01-2020
For the Appellant : A.P. Venugopal.
For the Respondents: G.V.R. Choudary.
Headnote:
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Section 146 - Order I Rule 10 Clause (2) - Order I Rule 10 - To implead the revision petitioner/proposed party as defendant in the suit - Plaintiff claims to be in possession and enjoyment of the properties referred to above as absolute owner - Plaint schedule property under the registered sale deed - Averments in the affidavit filed in support of the said application show that the plaintiff is the absolute owner of the plaint schedule property and claims to be in possession and enjoyment of the same for more than 50 years - Held, Difference from the once just now referred to lies in the fact that they are not directed to maintaining the status quo or to preserve the property pending the final adjudication, but are designed to ensure the just, smooth, orderly and expeditious disposal of the suit - They are interlocutory in the sense that they do not decide any matter in issue arising in the suit, nor put an end to the litigation - Keeping in view the principles enunciated in the above decisions, the question that now falls for consideration is whether the principles of res judicata or issue of estoppel would apply to the case on hand - Available at any stage of proceedings which include suit, appeal or revision or final decree proceedings or execution proceedings where felt either as necessary party or as proper party to implead even any party for effective adjudication - Having regard to the facts in issue, without going into the technicalities as to whether a separate application has to be filed or not or whether the application filed would be just and proper, this Court is of the view that the petitioner is a necessary party to the proceedings in order to avoid multiplicity of litigation; and the stand taken in the written statement, more so when the implement of proposed party defendant is at the instance of the plaintiff - Petition dismissed.
ORDER :
C. Praveen Kumar, J.
1. Assailing the order dated 31.10.2019 passed in IA No. 556 of 2019 in OS No. 312 of 2013, on the file of the VII Additional Senior Civil Judge, Vijayawada, wherein the application filed by the 2nd respondent/plaintiff under Order I Rule 10 CPC to implead the revision petitioner/proposed party as 2nd defendant in the suit, was allowed, the present revision is filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.
2. The averments in the affidavit filed in support of the said application show that the plaintiff is the absolute owner of the plaint schedule property and claims to be in possession and enjoyment of the same for more than 50 years. It is stated that an extent of 125 Sq.yards was purchased by the plaintiff under a registered sale deed dated 16.6.1958 and also another extent of 130 Sq.yards covered by the plaint schedule property under the registered sale deed dated 17.8.1967. It is further stated that the remaining extent of 145 Sq.yards was given as an oral gift by his father in the year 1967. Thus, the plaintiff claims to be in possession and enjoyment of the properties referred to above as absolute owner. In the year 1968, a tiled house was said to have been constructed by the plaintiff with his own funds. As the said house became very old, the same was removed. The defendant was also living in the same village during the relevant time. The plaintiff, who became old, claims to have been living in Gollapudi in the house of her granddaughter. Due to the differences between the plaintiff and the defendant, it is alleged that the defendant illegally trespassed into the plaint schedule property and started constructing a building. On coming to know about the same, the plaintiff sent his granddaughter and GPA holder Suri Sarada, and her husband Suri Koteswara Rao to request the defendant not to raise illegal structures, but the same proved futile. Having regard to the above, the suit for declaration of title and possession came to be filed.
The claim of the defendant is that the said property fell to the share of his elder son. According to him, originally there was 700 Sq.yards of site for the plaintiff and in the partition, 500 Sq.yards fell to the share of defendant's elder son and 200 Sq.yards was allotted to the defendant. In the said circumstances, it is pleaded that it is just and necessary to implead the elder son viz., Kalapala Narendra Babu so as to avoid multiplicity of litigation. Hence, the petitioner sought for making the consequential amendments as under:
(a) to add No. 1 before the name of the Kalapala Sitaramaiah in small cause title;
(b) to add Kalapala Narendra Babu as 2nd defendant in small cause title;
(c) to add 'S' after the word of defendant in small cause title;
(d) to add No. 1 before name of Kalapala Sitaramaiah in long cause title;
(e) to add Kalapala Narendra Babu as 2nd defendant in long cause title;
2. Kalapala Narendra Babu son of Sitaramaiah, Hindu, aged 47 years, cultivation, resident of Door No. 5-91, Chodavaram Village, Penamaluru Mandal, Krishna District.
(f) to add 'S' after the word of defendants in long cause title;
(g) to add 1st before the word of 1st defendant wherever it occurs in Paras 1 to 4;
(h) to add 'S' after the word of defendant in Paras 1 to 4;
(i) to add Para 4(a) after the Para 4.
4(a) 2nd defendant is the eldest son of 1st defendant. The 1st defendant further claiming that the plaint schedule property fell to the share of 2nd defendant. The 1st respondent is alleging that originally there is 700.0 Sq.yards of site for the plaintiff and that in the partition, 500.0 Sq.yards of site fell to the share of 2nd defendant/eldest son of 1st defendant and 200.0 Sq.yards was allotted to the share of 1st defendant".
3. A counter-affidavit came to be filed disputing the same except to the extent admitted. It is stated that the petitioner therein filed the present application suppressing the material facts. According to him, in the earlier proceedings, the proposed