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1980 Supreme(Pat) 49

PATNA HIGH COURT
Hari Lal Agrawal and Chaudhary Sia Saran Sinha JJ.
Lalmuni Devi
Versus
Shiv Shanker Tiwary
Appeal From Original Order No. 26 of 1980 ;
Decided On : FEBRUARY 27, 1980

Headnote:Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 47 - "Such step" means issue of a Commission to ascertain and fix up the identity of the property in terms of the decree-such step is for the purpose of effecting delivery of possession in terms of decree. (Para 4)

       Objector claming themselves to the benamidars have no right to object to the delivery of possession-Real owner being a party to execution, the Miscellaneous case and also the appeal is bound by the decree. (Para 5)

       Code of Civil Procedure, O.23 R. 3 - Compromise with respect to subject matter of suit and also extreneous matters-Registration of compromise effected where the compromise relates to immoveable property-Decree is lawful and incorporated in the decree, decree is executable (Para 6)

       Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 2(2) - Decree giving final allotments in specific properties after ascertaining the share in a partition suit on a compromise-The decree is a consolidated preliminary and final decrees. (Para 7)

       

Judgment

HARI LAL AGRAWAL, J.

1. This is an appeal under Sec. 47 of the Civil P. C. by the decree holders and arises out of an order passed on an objection petition filed by the judgement-debtors respondents first party, in the execution court, objecting to the delivery of possession of a house in pursuance of a compromise decree between the parties.

2. It appears from the facts stated in the compromise decree that the decree holder Bhagwat Prasad Tiwary, ancestor of the appellants, and Saryug Tiwary respondent second party, besides being members of a joint family which possessed various landed properties at various places, were also carrying on certain business in partnership. It further appears that some dispute having arisen between the parties, Saryug Tiwary instituted a suit in the year 1964 on the original side of the Calcutta High Court for various declarations and dissolution of some business. In that suit a compromise decree was passed on 29-2-1968. In accordance with the said compromise, properties mentioned in Part II in Schedule A were allotted to Bhagwat Tiwary and those mentioned in Part I of the said schedule to Saryug Tiwary. Some properties, however, were left joint. The two houses, one situated in the town of Calcutta and the other in the village home of the parties at Manpura in the district of Saran, were incorporated in the said compromise decree. Whereas the Calcutta house was allotted to the branch of Saryug Tiwary being described in Item No. 71, the ancestral house in village Manpura was allotted to the branch of Bhagwat Tiwary. It was described in Item No. 46 of the relevant schedule as follows :-

"A pucca brick built house at village Manpura P.S. Ravelganj, District Chapra (Saran)"

It is not disputed that this house property was not originally included in the suit but formed part of the compromise by consent of the parties. The decree, however, was registered. The respondents first party who are none else than the sons and wife of Saryug Tiwary, besides being parties to the suit were also parties to the compromise having signed the compromise on their own behalf, but it was stated that they were merely benamidars and had no interest in the properties. After the compromise decree was duly registered, the decree-holders got it transmitted to Chapra for effecting delivery of possession of the aforesaid item No. 46, namely, the ancestral house which lay within the territorial jurisdiction of the court below. The decree was accordingly transferred and Execution Case No. 14 of 1978 was registered in the Court of the First Subordinate Judge at Chapra. The respondents first party in their objection petition raised the following objections : (1) The property as mentioned in the decree was vague and unidentifiable, (2) it was not the subject matter of the suit, (3) the Calcutta High Court had directed for execution of the decree only against Saryug Prasad Tiwary (defendant No. 1) and not against his heirs and (4) the compromise decree was only declaratory in nature and no delivery of possession could be effected under such decree.

A rejoinder was filed on behalf of the appellants controverting the pleas of the objectors. The executing court, however, allowed the objection petition and recorded the following findings : (1) The decree was vague as the property in question was not identifiable and (2) in view of the direction of the Calcutta High Court the decree could not be executed against the respondents first party. The other objections that the property having not formed part of the suit, could not be included in the decree and the nature of the decree was merely declaratory and unexecutable were rejected. These points were, however, also strongly pressed by Mr. Lakshman Saran Sinha, appearing for respondents first party before us.

3. I will first consider the argument regarding the vagueness of the decree. Mr. Kailash Roy, learned counsel appearing for the appellants, invited our attention to the statements












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