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1974 Supreme(Guj) 36

Gujarat High Court
Judgename :S.N.PATEL
BABUBHAI MULCHANDDAS KAPADIA - Appellant
Versus
ISHWARLAL DEVCHAND KABRAWALA - Respondent
Civil Revision 323 of 1974
Decided On : 05/01/1974

Advocates Appeared: K.H.KAJI, S.N.SHELAT

Headnote:

Indian Evidence Act – Section 73 – Suit against defendant for ejectment – Signature at the end of the rent note and the schedule annexed to the rent note – Plaintiff relied upon rent note in respect of suit premises alleged to be executed by defendant – Plaintiff also relied upon a writing below rent note – In said suit defendant filed an application and contended that defendant bad put signature at end of rent note but defendant had not put his signature at end of writing below rent note – Defendant contended that writing below rent note and signature below said writing were not in his hand-writing – Defendant by said application requested that as he was disputing signature and writing at foot of rent note original rent note should be sent to Examiner of Questioned Documents Intelligence Bureau Simla – Held, Aforesaid discussion it is very clear that second clause of sec. 73 of Indian Evidence Act permits court to direct any person to write words and figures for purpose of comparison and such comparison is to be with a view to enable court to form its own conclusion in order that it might do complete justice between party and party – Court is not entitled under sec. 73 of Evidence Act to assist a party to the proceedings by asking any person to write any words or figures with a view that words or figures may be used as standard writings for comparison with alleged writings or figures – Sec. 73 entitles court to assit itself to come to a proper conclusion in interest of justice – Therefore it is very clear that learned Civil Judge had no authority to take writings from defendant in presence of court with a view that said writings may be used as standard writings for comparison with alleged disputed writings so as to assist party – In view of aforesaid discussion order passed by learned Civil Judge is liable to be set aside – Application allowed.

S. N. PATEL, J.

( 1 ) THIS revision application is directed against the order passed on 11th February 1974 by the learned 3rd Joint Civil Judge (J. D.) Surat directing the defendant to write in the open court contents of writings Q1 and Q2 as desired by the Assistant Government Examiner of Questioned Documents.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is original plaintiff. The respondent is original defendant. The plaintiff filed Civil Suit No. 1207 of 1969 against the defendant for ejectment. The plaintiff relied upon the rent note dated 15 in respect of the suit premises alleged to be executed by the defendant. The plaintiff also relied upon a writing dated 31st October 1963 below the rent note. In the said suit the defendant filed an application dated 17th April 1972 and contended that the defendant bad put the signature at the end of the rent note but the defendant had not put his signature at the end of the writing below the rent note. The defendant contended that the writing below the rent note and signature below the said writing were not in his hand-writing. The defendant by the said application requested that as he was disputing the signature and the writing at the foot of the rent note the original rent note should be sent to the Examiner of Questioned Documents Intelligence Bureau Simla. The court by its order dated 14th August 1972 granted the said application and directed the defendant to take photo copy of the rent note and forward the same to the Examiner of Questioned Documents. Thereafter the defendant filed another application on 19th November 1973 In the said application the defendant averred that the rent note in question was sent to the Examiner of Questioned Documents for his opinion on the signature and writing below the rent note. The Examiner of Questioned Documents had sought for some directions. The defendant requested that the court might. take specimen signature of the defendant in presence of the court and allow the defendant to copy from the questioned writing and to send them to the Examiner of Questioned Documents for comparison with the disputed signature and writing.

( 3 ) THIS application was resisted by the plaintiff. It was contended on behalf of the plaintiff that the court had no authority to take any specimen signature or specimen writing of the defendant in the court for the purpose of sending the said signature and writing to the Examiner of Questioned Documents as the standard writings of the defendant for comparison with the disputed signature and writing on the alleged rent note. The learned Civil Judge overruled the objections raised by the plaintiff and observed that the defendant had admitted his signature at the end of the rent note and the schedule annexed to the rent note. However the defendant had disputed the writings below his admitted signature in the rent note and the schedule and the signature below those writings and contended that those writing and signatures were not in his hand-writings. The defendant had moved the court by an application exh. 38 dated 17th April 1972 to seek opinion of the Government Examiner of the Questioned Documents. By order dated 14th August 1972 the documents in question were sent to the Examiner of Questioned Documents Simla. The Government Examiner returned the documents stating that it was not possible to express any opinion on the questioned writings marked Q1 and Q2 on comparison with the standard writings marked A1 and A2. It was further observed that for expressing opinion on the questioned writings marked Q1 and Q2 further admitted genuine writings of some existing documents of defendant called Ishwarlal Devchandbhai Kabrawala might be procured and sent to the Assistant Government Examiner of Questioned Documents. It was also observed that it would be desirable if the contents of Q1 and Q2 were dictated to the aforesaid person on a few sheets and those might also be sent. The learned Civil Judge thereafter observed that there were no other admitted genu







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