IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
V.R.K.Krupa Sagar, J.
Ponnuru Sambasiva Rao – Petitioner
Versus
Pamarthi Nageswara Rao – Respondent
Civil Revision Petition No.1519 of 2019
Decided On : 30-08-2022
Constitution of India, 1950 – Article 227 – Civil revision petition – Point for determination – Seeking recovery of possession – Mandatory injunction for removal of certain constructions – Assailing the order – Held, Thus, it not only failed to grant any time to revision petitioner to find out to whether anyone else was available to assist advocate commissioner, but also failed itself in not finding an obligation on its shoulders to see that process of Court is for benefit of citizens and not for their inconvenience and sufferance – It is that indiscretion on part of trial Court that forced revision petitioner to come up to this Court invoking under Article 227 of Constitution of India – Court has to record that impugned order caused fundamental injustice to revision petitioner and goes against theme and substance of order of this Court earlier made wherein advocate commissioner was directed to be appointed learned trial Court – Point is answered in favour of revision petitioner – Therefore, impugned order is liable to be set aside – Civil Revision Petition allowed.
ORDER:
This civil revision petition is filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India assailing the order dated 08.03.2019 passed by learned I Additional Junior Civil Judge, Machilipatnam in I.A.No.248 of 2013 in O.S.No.166 of 2013.
2. Despite notice, none appeared for respondent. Learned counsel for revision petitioner submitted arguments.
3. The point for determination is:
4. Point:
Sri Ponnuru Sambasiva Rao filed O.S.No.166 of 2013 concerning certain immovable property seeking recovery of possession and a mandatory injunction for removal of certain constructions and for a permanent injunction as a measure of his protection and for costs and for such other reliefs. During pendency of the suit, he also filed I.A.No.248 of 2013 seeking for appointment of an advocate commissioner for certain purposes. The learned trial Court dismissed that forcing the plaintiff therein/petitioner herein to approach this Court by way of Civil Revision Petition No.2208 of 2015. On 19.12.2018 this Court allowed the revision and gave certain directions to the learned trial Court and the same is extracted below:
5. Acting upon that direction, on 22.02.2019 the learned trial Court appointed an advocate commissioner and the warrant of appointment is extracted below:
You are hereby directed to issue notice to both parties before visiting the schedule property and answer the work memos of both parties. You are hereby directed to file report on or before 08.03.2018.”
6. The above warrant of appointment of advocate commissioner would show that the advocate commissioner was to return the warrant along with his report on or before 08.03.2019. On that date which is 08.03.2019, the learned advocate commissioner filed a memo before the learned trial Court and the contents of memo are extracted below:
Hence I returned the warrant dated 22.02.2019. Hence this memo.”
7. On receiving such memo, the learned trial Court passed the order, which is extracted below:
As per the order of the Hon’ble High Court the Advocate Commissioner was appointed on 22.02.2019 with a direction to execute the warrant and shall file his report by 08.03.2019 positively. The Hon’ble High Court in the order directed this Court to fix time frame for execution of the warrant. In spite of giving time till today the Advocate Commissioner failed to execute the warrant. The petitioner did not produce any material before the Court about the steps taken by him for execution of the warrant by the Advocate Commissioner. In the light of above circumstance the petition is closed.”
8. It is this order of the trial Court that was passed on 08.03.2019 that is challenged in this revision. In the grounds of revision, the earnest but fierce submission of the learned counsel for revision petitioner is that mere non-availability of a Mandal Surveyor at a given point of time cannot be a ground to close the proceedings of advocate commissioner and the learned trial Court ought to have granted a little more time and the valuable righ
The main legal point established in the judgment is that unless the earlier report of the Advocate Commissioner is scraped, the question of re-issuing the warrant does not arise.
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