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2018 Supreme(Pat) 760

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Sanjay Kumar, J.
Smt. Damyanti - Appellant
Vs.
Bishundeo Pd. Mandal - Respondent
First Appeal No. 179 of 1983
Decided On : 08-08-2018

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. D.P. Sinha
For the Respondent: Mr. Prabhat Kr. Jha, Mr. Shailendra Kr. Jha, Mr. Subhash Chandra Jha, Mr. Barun Kumar Choudhary, Mr. Lalit Narayan Jha, Mr. Rajib Ranjan Jha, Mr. Binod Krishna Jha

The court has the discretion to appoint a receiver and specify the terms and conditions for managing the suit property.

Headnote:

receiver - appointment of receiver - order XL Rule 1 of C.P.C. - Ext-N - order dated 27.01.1988 - I.A. No. 5654 of 2004 - order dated 16.03.2005

Fact of the Case:

The appellant, sole heir and daughter of the original plaintiff, filed a partition suit claiming share in the suit properties. After contest, the suit was decreed in part, granting the plaintiff half share in the properties. The appellant filed an application for appointment of receiver, which was allowed. After the death of the appointed receiver, the appellant and respondent filed interlocutory applications for their appointment as receiver.

Finding of the Court:

The court found that the family of the deceased receiver was using the suit property and it was just and convenient to appoint the respondent as receiver, who was directed to deposit a specified amount annually for managing the suit property.

Issues: Appointment of receiver, management of suit property, deposit amount

Ratio Decidendi: The court considered the history of receiver appointments, modification of deposit amounts, and the current situation of the suit property to make its decision.

Final Decision: The interlocutory applications were disposed of, and the respondent was appointed as receiver to manage the suit property until the disposal of the appeal, with specified terms and conditions.

ORDER :

Sanjay Kumar, J.

I.A.No.4197 of 2017 & I.A.No.6842 of 2017 I.A.No.4197 of 2017 has been filed by respondent no.2 praying therein to appoint him as receiver in place of his father Late Bishundeo Prasad Mandal.

2. I.A.No.6842 of 2017 has been filed on behalf of appellant (plaintiff) for appointment of her son Ashutosh Das as receiver of suit properties.

3. Heard learned counsels for both the parties.

4. The appellant before this court is sole heir and daughter original plaintiff Smt. Janki Devi who had filed the partition suit claiming share in the suit properties. After contest the suit was decreed in part and it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to half share in the properties which was allotted in the share of her mother in the year 1955 as per Ext-N and remaining half share in favour of respondent no.12 (defendant no.8th party). The plaintiff being aggrieved with the said partial decree has filed this appeal. She filed an application under order XL Rule 1 of C.P.C. for appointment of receiver which was allowed in terms of order passed in Miscellaneous Appeal no 98 of 1963 whereunder the main contesting party defendant no.1 was appointed as receiver. Initially the defendant was directed to deposit a sum of Rs. 6000/- yearly by 1st October in each calendar year during the pendency of the suit. After disposal of suit the plaintiff-appellant filed application before this court which after hearing was allowed as per order no.14 dated 27.01.1988 in following terms:-

"Having considered the arguments of the learned counsel for the parties, I think that in view of larger area in possession of the respondent, the deposit of a sum of Rs. 9,000/- per year will not meet the ends of justice because the order of deposit of a sum of Rs. 6,000/- was passed sometime in the year 1967. Mr. Jha on being pointed out this fact and having known the feeling of the Court, volunteered to raise it to Rs. 12,000/- per year. Mr. Chuni Lal appearing for the appellant has no objection that this petition be disposed of on terms that the respondents shall continue to deposit a sum of Rs. 12,000/- from the Ist October, 1988, till the disposal of the appeal and each party noticed under the order dated 29.7.1970 in Misc.Appeal No.98/63 shall be entitled to draw double the sum that they were entitled to under the previous order, without furnishing any security."

5. The contesting respondent no.1 Bishundeo Prasad Mandal who was appointed receiver died on 25.11.2013 and since then there is no receiver. The respondent no.2 and appellant have filed the aforesaid two interlocutory applications for their appointment as receiver.

6. The learned counsel for the appellant submitted that after the death of respondent no.1, his family members are using the properties and mismanaging the same since more than four years. They have constructed structure over the residential partition of suit properties and also allowed few strangers to occupy some of the portion of suit land. It has been also submitted that due to price rise in yearly income from the sale proceeds of the usufruct from the suit land has increased and it can't be less than Rs. 8,00000/- (eight lacs) per annum. The appellant has thus, offered to deposit rupees eight lacs per annum with the undertaking and fidelity that she will manage the property with her son Ashutosh Das in the event of his appointment.

7. The respondent no.2 filed I.A. No. 4197 of 2017 and counter affidavit to the I.A. No. 6842 of 2017 denying the allegations made by appellant. It has been submitted that as per decree, the plaintiff is entitled to only 10 bigha 10 katha 14 dhur land out of 21 bigha 1 katha 8 dhur which was allotted to the mother of plaintiff in the partition held in the year 1955. The learned counsel for the respondent no.2 has however, volunteered to deposit the same figure rupees eight lacs per calendar year as offered by the appellant for managing the suit property.

8. In the case in hand, I find that the respondent n




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