IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA
B.M. Shyam Prasad, J.
Raja and Others – Petitioners
Versus
K. Narayana Shetty – Respondent
Writ Petition No. 8637 of 2017
Decided On : 28-08-2023
| Table of Content |
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| 1. introduction and case background. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. details of prior court orders and submissions. (Para 3 , 4) |
| 3. issues with the commissioner's report and execution. (Para 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9) |
| 4. consideration of boundaries and sketches in determination. (Para 10) |
| 5. court's decision and directions for re-examination. (Para 11 , 12) |
ORDER :
1. This petition is by the Judgment Debtors in Execution No.244/1991 on the file of the II Additional Civil Judge and JMFC, Mangalore, Dakshina Kannada [for short, the 'executing Court']. The petitioners are aggrieved by the executing Court's order dated 16.02.2017, and the executing Court by this order has accepted the Court Commissioner's Report, which is filed along with plans, holding that the petitioners must hand over the property that is marked in color 'Pink' in Plan-2 annexed to the Report. Sri. G. Krishna Murthy, the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners, and Sri. Cyril Prasad Pais, the learned counsel for the respondent, are heard for final disposal of the petition.
2. The undisputed facts are that the respondent's suit in O.S.No. 179/1977 is decreed on 24.11.1981, but this judgment and decree is revisited by this Court in RSA No.621/1989 at the instance of Sri. M. Madhava [the first defendant in the suit] and his wife Sunanda [the second defendant in the suit and the third petitioner herein]. Sri. M.Madhava has died, and he is represented by his children [the first and the second petitioners]. The dispute relates to the respondent's case that Sri. Madhava and the third petitioner, who assert title to 10 cents in Sy.No.4/3A1 of Kankanady village, Mangaluru Taluk, Dakshina Kannada under the sale deed dated 24.01.1975, have encroached upon an extent of 9 cents in the total extent of 28 cents purchased by him under the Mulgeni Chit dated 29.11.1973 [Ex.P5] and the sale deed dated 17.05.1974 [Ex.P1].
3. The culmination of this dispute is by this Court's order in RSA No.621/1989, and this Court's order is in the light of the submissions made on behalf of both the respondent and the petitioners. The submissions on behalf of Sri. M.Madhava and the third petitioner and this Court's consequential clarification and direction read as under:
(5) In view of these submissions, the trial Court on execution side is directed to appoint an advocate as commissioner to measure and demarcate 28 cents of land covered by Ex. P-5 and P-1 including 5 cents of land sold by plaintiff to one Jyothi bai and if any area is required to make up this 28 cents, it will be measured and demarcated on the land of defendants covered by Ex. P-2 so that possession of so much area can be delivered to the plaintiff. The advocate-commissioner shall take assistance of expert."
4. The respondent, after this Court's order as aforesaid on 12.11.1990, has filed the present execution petition, and the executing Court has appointed a Court Commissioner for the purposes of achieving the direction as aforesaid. A learned Member of the bar, who is appointed as th
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