IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
S.N. HUSSAIN, J.
Shri Dhirendra Kumar, Advocate, Patna High Court, son of Late Babu Lal Prasad, at present residing at M.I.G. House No.181, Hanuman Nagar, P.S.-Patrakar Nagar, District – Patna. - Petitioner
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Bihar State Housing Board, through its Managing Director, Anupam Kumar Suman, I.R.S., having its office at 6 Sardar Patel Road, P.S. Sachiwalay, District Patna.
Smt. Neena Prasad, wife of Dr. Arbind Kumar, resident of M.I.G. House No.237, Lohiya Nagar, P.S. Kankarbagh, Patna. - Opposite parties
Miscellaneous Jurisdiction Case No.5486 of 2011
Decided on : 26-06-2013
(A) Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 – Section 12 – Disobedience of order passed by court – When an order is passed, even if it is an interim order passed on an interlocutory application, it has to be followed and complied immediately and its violation cannot be justified by a much subsequent disposal of case. (Para 21)
(B) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Sections 195(1)(b)(i) and 340 – Fraud and fabrication – If any fraud or forgery or fabrication is brought on record and comes to knowledge of court even in a collateral proceeding, court of law specially High Court cannot legally ignore the same – Act of any authority or order of any court obtained by fraud, forgery or fabrication has to be treated as a nullity by every court – Truth should be guiding star in entire judicial process. (Paras 34 to 36)
(C) Bihar State Housing Board Regulation, 1983 – Sections 32 and 38 – Allotment of house – No allottee can enter into a second lease – Allotment of house by Board was for residential purpose of allottee himself – Tripartite agreement having been executed by suppressing rules for allotment of house, this is a clear case of fraud and fabrication on part of authorities of Board – Proper and legal course for Board was to first allow possession of petitioner to be restored over MIG house after judgment of Sessions Court, as till then he was in legal possession of MIG House through court – Only thereafter, Board could have taken steps for eviction of petitioner – Title suit filed by petitioner for his right, title and possession has to be decided expeditiously. (Paras 52, 53, 58 and 59)
This petition had been filed by the petitioner for initiating a proceeding of contempt against opposite party nos.1 and 2 and for punishing them for their alleged deliberate and willful disobedience of order of a Bench of this Court dated 16.06.2011 passed in I.A. No.3982 of 2011 which was filed in M.A. No.907 of 2010.
2. The aforesaid M.A. No.907 of 2010 had arisen out of Title Suit No.335 of 2006, which was filed by the petitioner against the Bihar State Housing Board (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Housing Board’ for the sake of brevity) and others for declaration that the plaintiff’s removal from the suit house (M.I.G. House No.237 of Lohiya Nagar, Patna) was illegal and the plaintiff was entitled to be put in occupation of the same through the process of the Court and also for a decree of permanent mandatory injunction against the defendants in the said suit. Full court fee was paid and the suit was admitted, notices were sent to all the defendants and written statement was also filed by all the defendants except defendant no.1 and learned trial court vide order dated 31.08.2009 rejected the plea of defendants to decide the suit on preliminary issue because it was found that sufficient cause of action had been disclosed and full facts had been mentioned in the plaint.
3. Thereafter on 19.05.2007 plaintiff filed an interlocutory application for ad-interim injunction restraining defendant nos.6 and 7 from alienating, selling or parting with possession or creating encumbrance during the pendency of the suit with respect to the suit house, which was in their possession. However, the said interlocutory application was rejected by learned Sub-ordinate Judge-12, Patna vide order dated 06.09.2010, which was challenged by the plaintiff in M.A. No.907 of 2010. In the said miscellaneous appeal I.A. No.3982 of 2011 was filed by the plaintiff and by interim order dated 16.06.2011 this court restrained the authorities of the Board from alienating, encumbering or making constructions with respect to the property in question.
4. In this M.J.C. case the claim of petitioner is that in spite of the said order opposite party nos.1 and 2 in collusion with each other started constructing floor-wise school known as New Era High School in the residential suit house without any sanction of map specially when no construction or conversion is permitted to any unauthorized occupant of the house/flat of the Housing Board.
5. Subsequently on 28.09.2012 petitioner filed I.A. No.6635 of 2012 in the instant contempt matter for an enquiry to be held under section 340 read with section 195 (i) (b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure against the opposite parties for producing and acting upon documents, which were fraudulent, forged and fabricated and were mere nullity such as allotment of house to Anil Kumar Sinha in 1975 and the tripartite agreement dated 03.06.2002 executed by the authority of the Board, heirs of Anil Kumar Sinha and Neena Prasad for giving petitioner’s M.I.G. House No.237 to Neena Prasad on lease as well as the alleged Power of Attorney purported to have been given by the heirs of Anil Kumar Sinha from Chicago, U.S.A. to Mrs. Neena Girish.
6. In the said I.A. No.6635 of 2012 filed under section 340 read with section 195 (1) (b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure the petitioner has specifically raised the following issues:-
(i) Allotment of house in favour of Anil Kumar Sinha was made only on the orders of Managing Director of the Board and not by all the members of the Board as is required in law. Neither any resolution was passed by the Board duly signed by all members of the Board nor it was ever approved by the Board nor any such document has been produced or filed by the opposite parties in any case as yet. Hence the said allotment apart from being fraudulent is a nullity. In this connection he relied upon a decision of a Division Bench of this court in case of Rajendra Sharma vs. The State of Bihar & Others, reported in A.I.R. 1
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