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2024 Supreme(Pat) 474

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
ARUN KUMAR JHA, J.
Civil Misc. Jur. 1793 of 2019
(16.7.2024)
Ramvaran Sah @ Bhaglu Sah ... Petitioners
vs.
Ashok Kumar & Ors. ... Respondents

Advocates:
For the Petitioner: M/s Umashankar Singh, Kumar Praveen.
For the Respondents: Mr. Arun Kumar.

Headnote:

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Order I, Rule 10(2) – Addition of intervenor – obviously, the Court has got ample power to add or strike out the name of any person at any stage of the proceeding – it is entirely at the discretion of the Court and the said discretion is to be exercised by the Court for effectually and completely to adjudicate upon and settle all the questions involved in the suit – the Courts can order for impleadment even against the wishes of the plaintiff if a party has a direct and legal interest in the subject matter of the property – in the present case, the petitioner claims his impleadment on the basis of khatiyan entry which stands in his name – so for as partition suit of the plaintiffs and defendants is concerned, the petitioner has no right in the suit of the parties and he is a stranger to the proceeding – the Court would not be handicapped in absence of the petitioner to dispose of the proceeding before it – no infirmity in the impugned order – Civil Misc. Petition – Dismissed. (Paras 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11)

Mumbai International Airport (P) Ltd. Vs. Regency Convention Centre & Hotels (P) Ltd., (2010) 7 SCC 417; Vidur Impex & Traders (P) Ltd. Vs. Tosh Apartments (P) Ltd., (2012) 8 SCC 384; Ramesh Hiranchand Kundanmal Vs. Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, (1992) 2 SCC 524; Kasturi Vs. Iyyamperumal, (2005) 6 SCC 733 – Relied.

Arun Kumar Jha, J.—The present Misc. Petition has been filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India by the petitioner for setting aside the order dated 17.10.2019 passed by the learned Sub Judge, Sitamarhi in Partition Suit No. 442 of 2015 whereby and whereunder the learned trial court rejected the petition dated 08.02.2016 filed by the petitioner under Order 1, Rule 10(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Code’) for impleadment of the petitioner as intervenor in the aforesaid partition suit.

2. Briefly stated, the case of the parties as it appears from the record is that the respondents are plaintiffs before the learned trial court and they have filed Partition Suit No. 442 of 2015 for partition of land having khata no. 448, plot no. 2828, area 53 decimal of Village-Parari, Thana No. 286, PS and District-Sitamarhi apart from other lands. Khata no. 448, Plot no. 2828, area 98 decimal of Village-Parari is recorded in the name of petitioner Ramvaran Sah @ Bhaglu Sah. The father of the petitioner namely, Ramdayal Sah died intestate in the year 1958, leaving behind the petitioner, his son, and one daughter, namely Sharda Sahu. An oral partition took place between the petitioner and his sister and separate allotments were made to them. The land allotted in share of Sharda Sahu came to be recorded in the record of right under Khata No. 562 and 563, respectively. On 07.02.2016, the petitioner came to know that his khatiyani lands were being partitioned by the plaintiffs and defendants of Partition Suit No. 442 of 2015. Thereafter, the petitioner filed intervention application under Order-I, Rule 10(2) of the Code for impleading him as party to the suit. The plaintiffs filed rejoinder to the petition claiming therein that they have purchased 01 Bigha 13 Kathas and 03 Dhurs of land from Sharda Devi wife of Janki Sah through registered sale deed no. 1163 dated 26.03.1965 and sale deed no. 13405 dated 31.07.1967, respectively. The learned trial court rejected the intervention petition of the petitioner vide order dated 17.10.2019. The said order has been challenged in the present case.

3. Learned counsel further submitted that the impugned order of the learned trial court is not sustainable and it is an erroneous order passed on wrong appreciation of facts. The learned trial court without any material on record made an observation that father of one Muktinath Yadav had moved an application earlier for impleadment, which was rejected on merit and thereafter, the son also filed another application on 10.08.2016, who has now managed Bhaglu Sah, the descendant of khatiyani raiyat, and got filed an application for impleadment. Now, this observation is completely without any basis. Furthermore, there has been no challenge by the plaintiffs that khata No. 319, plot no. 2828 and Thana no. 286 is not recorded in the name of petitioner neither the plaintiffs have denied the fact that the petitioner is the son of Ram Dayal Sah. The petitioner has filed a certified copy of khatiyan through list of document on 16.08.2019, still the learned trial court made an observation that petitioner has not filed any chit of paper in support of his case. Learned counsel further submits that saledeed no. 13405 dated 31.07.1967 purported to have been executed by Sharda Devi shows that khata number mentioned therein is old 102 and new khata no. 448 is only for 11 kathas of land, which has been transferred and it is less than the land claimed by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs and defendants are in collusion with each other and want to grab the land of the petitioner on the basis of fake, forged and invalid documents. The learned trial court ought to have allowed the petitioner an opportunity to contest the claim of the plaintiffs and defendants with respect to 53 decimal land of plot no. 2828 under khata no. 319 as the same belongs to this petitioner. Learned counsel further submitted that the observation of learned trial cou

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