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2011 Supreme(Bom) 1155

2011 (6) ALLMR 756
High Court of Judicature at Bombay
A.S. OKA
Mr. Raghunath R. Shingate
Versus
Jayant Gajanan Pathak & Others
FIRST APPEAL NO.32 OF 2010
Decided on : 27-09-2011

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant:V.S. Kapse, Advocate.
For the Respondents:R1, R.S. Apte, Senior Counsel i/by Mandar Limaye & Shreekant V. Gavand, Advocates.

Headnote:Specific Relief Act, 1963 - Section 6(1)(3)-Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order XXI, Rules 97 and 103-Appeal-Against execution of decree against dispossession-Barred by Section 6(3) of Act-On order passed in execution of decree to which Rule 103 of Order XXI of CPC is applicable will not be subject of any appeal-Appeal against execution of an order passed under Section 6(1) of Act, not maintainable.-There is no difficulty in accepting the proposition that wherever an appeal against a decree passed in a suit is maintainable, by virtue of Rule 103 of Order XXI of the said Code, the order passed by the Court on the adjudication made on application under Rule 97 of Order XXI of the said Code will have a force of the decree for the purposes of an appeal and, therefore, such order will be appealable under Section 96 of the said Code as if it is a decree. Rule 103 of Order XXI of the said Code uses a peculiar phraseology "as to an appeal or otherwise as if it were a decree." As held earlier, an execution proceeding is a continuation of a suit. Rule 103 confers status of a decree on adjudication made under Rule 98 or Rule 100 of Order XXI of the said Code so that it is subject to same condition as to an appeal or otherwise. The execution is a continuation of a suit. Therefore, an appeal against a decree or order passed in execution of a decree in a suit under Section 6(1) will be barred by Sub-section (3) of Section 6 of the said Act. Therefore, if an appeal is not maintainable against the decree passed in the suit, it follows that an order passed in execution of a decree to which Rule 103 of Order XXI of the said Code is applicable will not be subject to any appeal.

       An appeal is not maintainable against the impugned judgment and order.

       

Judgment :

This is an Appeal preferred by one of the Obstructionists for challenging the Judgment and Order dated 7th December, 2009 passed by the learned Judge of the City Civil Court, Mumbai. The first Respondent is the original Plaintiff. It is not in dispute that the first Respondent filed a suit under Section 6(1) of the Specific Reliefs Act, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”) for possession of the suit premises against the second to fourth Respondents. The suit was decreed. The execution of the Decree was obstructed by the Appellant and two others. Therefore, a Chamber Summons was taken out by the first Respondent by invoking Rule 97 of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Code”). By the impugned Judgment and Order, the said Chamber Summons has been made absolute. The Appellant has preferred this Appeal by relying upon Rule 103 of Order XXI of the said Code.

2. learned Senior Counsel appearing for the first Respondent raised an objection to the maintainability of the present Appeal. His submission is that in view of Subsection (3) of Section 6 of the said Act, an Appeal against the Decree passed in a suit under Section 6(1) of the said Act is not maintainable. His submission is that in fact an Appeal is not maintainable against any order or a decree passed in a suit under Section 6(1) of the said Act. His submission is that as an Appeal is not maintainable against the decree passed in the suit, an Appeal will not lie against the order passed in execution of the decree passed in a suit under Section 6(1) of the said Act. He placed reliance on a decision of the Calcutta High Court in the case of Kanai Lal Ghose v. Jatindra Nath Chandra (AIR 1918 Calcutta 925). He has also placed reliance on a decision of Nagpur High Court in the case of U.

3. Learned counsel appearing for the Appellant invited the attention of the Court to the Rules 97 to 103 of Order XXI of the said Code. He submitted that the scheme of the said Code contemplates that even the rights of the third parties are required to be finally determined while making an adjudication on an application under Rule 97 of Order XXI of the said Code and the Rule 103 thereof confers status of a decree on the order passed on adjudication made under Rule 97 of Order XXI of the said Code. He placed reliance on a decision of this Court in the case of Kishan Ranchhoddas and Another v. Lalji Dharamdas Kapadia and Other (1982 Mh.L.J. 216). He placed reliance on a decision of the Apex Court in the case of N.S.S. Narayana Sarma & Others v. M/s. Goldstone Exports (P) Ltd. And Others (AIR 2002 SC 251). He submitted that the Apex Court has held that the adjudication made under Rule 97 or Rule 99 of Order XXI of the said Code has to be treated as a decree as all the questions arising between the obstructionist and the decree holder are required to be decided in the proceedings for removal of obstruction and not by way of a separate suit.

4. I have given careful consideration to the submissions. The only issue which arises for determination is of maintainability of the Appeal. In short, the issue is whether the bar created by Subsection (3) of Section 6 of the said Act will apply to the present Appeal.

5. Section 6 of the said Act reads thus:-

“6. Suit by person dispossessed of immovable property. –

(1) If any person is dispossessed without his consent of immovable property otherwise than in due course of law, he or any person claiming through him may, by suit, recover possession thereof, notwithstanding any other title that may be set up in such suit.

(2) No suit under this section shall be brought –

(a) after the expiry of six months from the date of dispossession; or

(b) against the Government.

(3) No appeal shall lie from any order or decree passed in any suit instituted under this section, nor shall any review of any such order or decree be allowed.

(4) Nothing in this section shall bar any person from suing to esta
















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