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2017 Supreme(Del) 4880

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J.
Aditya Prasad Dube & Ors. - Petitioners
Versus
Shobha Dube & Anr. - Respondents
C.R.P. 54 of 2015, CM Nos. 6627, 28473 & 39175 of 2016, RFA 97 of 2016
Decided On : 14-11-2017

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. K.K. Sharma, Mr. Pragyan Sharma, Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Ms. Gagandeep Chauhan, Mr. Avirar Agniotri
For the Respondents: Mr. Sudhir Nandrajog, Mr. Pramod Kumar Dubey, Mr. Shiv Chopra, Ms. Namita Wali, Mr. Mayank Mishra

Headnote:

Specific Relief Act, 1963 - Section 6 - Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Section 115 - Recovery of possession - Portion - Relinquishment Deeds - Effect of - Relinquishment Deed executed by father - Father though alive has chosen not to challenge - Consideration of Relinquishment Deed - Property stood partitioned - There could be no relinquishment of share and the partitioned portion could only be transferred - Agreement between the parties records the division to be only for the purposes of having convenient usage - Same does not acquire the status of a partition in law - Neither in the Revision Petition nor in the appeal has merit - Both are dismissed.

JUDGMENT :

Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, J.

1. Both these proceedings have been listed together and are taken up together for hearing and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. C.R.P. 54/2015 under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC for short) impugns the judgment and decree [dated 15th November, 2014 in Civil Suit No.160/2014 of the Court of Additional District Judge-04, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi] for recovery of possession of the portion shown in red colour in the site plan Ex.PW1/1 proved therein, of property No.28, Central Lane, Bengali Market, New Delhi, in the suit under Section 6 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 filed by Sharad Dube against (i) Aditya Prasad Dube, (ii) Vimmi Dube, (iii) Tarun Dube, (iv) Sonali Dube, and (v) M.C. Gupta. The defendants in the Suit were also restrained by a decree for permanent injunction from locking the common front main gate and common front varandah door of the property and from creating third party rights in the red portion aforesaid. However, since the property then was in possession of a Receiver appointed by the Court vide order dated 2nd March, 2009 in the Suit, the Court Receiver was directed to hand over possession of the said red portion of the property to Sharad Dube.

3. C.R.P. 54/2015 has been preferred by i) Aditya Prasad Dube, ii) Tarun Dube, and iii) Sonali Dube only. Vimmi Dube who was also a defendant in the Suit from which the said C.R.P. arises, has since died and M.C. Gupta who was also a defendant in the Suit from which the C.R.P. arises, has chosen not to challenge the decree.

4. C.R.P. 54/2015 came up before this Court first on 13th April, 2015, when, while issuing notice thereof, Shobha Dube, wife of Sharad Dube who had since died, was restrained from creating any third party interest in the aforesaid red portion of the property. The said interim order has continued till now.

5. RFA 97/2016 impugns the order [dated 28th August, 2015 in CS No.112/2015 of the Court of Additional District Judge-06 (Central), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi] of rejection of the plaint in the Suit filed by (i) Tarun Dube, (ii) Archana Beniwal, (iii) Arun Dube, (iv) Anil Prasad Dube, (v) Siddhartha Dube, (vi) Abhimanyu Dube, (vii) Rajeev Prasad Dube, (viii) Bharat Dube; and (ix) Ronnie Dube, against Sharad Dube, Aditya Prasad Dube, Kapil Dube and Government of India, for (i) declaration that the plaintiffs therein are co-owners of the aforesaid property; (ii) permanent injunction restraining the defendants in the Suit from illegally depriving the plaintiffs from their share in the said property, from creating any third party interest therein and from raising any construction on the property; (iii) for declaration that the Relinquishment Deeds, both dated 26th March, 2002, executed by Aditya Prasad Dube and Kapil Dube of their share in the aforesaid property in favour of Sharad Dube were got executed fraudulently and without any legal necessity and cancellation of the said Relinquishment Deeds; (iv) for recovery of possession of red portion aforesaid of the property; and (v) for direction to the Sub Registrar to record the cancellation of the said Relinquishment Deeds.

6. RFA 97/2016 came up first before this Court on 24th February, 2016 when notice thereof was also ordered to be issued and vide order dated 11th May, 2017, the RFA was ordered to be listed before the same Bench before which C.R.P. 54/2015 was pending.

7. Though the Suit from which the RFA arises was filed by as many as nine plaintiffs as named above, but the RFA has been preferred only by Tarun Dube and all the other plaintiffs in the said Suit have chosen not to challenge the order of rejection of plaint having the status of a decree vide Section 2(2) of the CPC.

8. The senior counsel for the Revision Petitioners in the C.R.P. and for the Appellant in the RFA commenced his arguments by first arguing the R

















































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