Gujarat High Court
Judgename :M.B.SHAH
MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN SULEMAN SHAIKH - Appellant
Versus
BATUKBHAI VALJIBHAI - Respondent
APPEAL FROM ORDER 30 of 1983
Decided On : 08/22/1983
Specific Relief Act, 1963 – Sections 6, 9, 41 and 55 - Contract and Specific relief - Tenants - Suit for declaration - Appellants a dec-en under section 6 of Specific Relief Act was passed in Civil Suit filed by respondents - Respondent Masjid is a public religious trust which is managed by respondents as its trustees - Respondents claim that they are tenants in respect of some portion situated between two pillars of a wall Ahmedabad which is near footpath - Respondents have filed suit for recovering possession of suit premises of Specific as appellants took possession of said premises unlawfully - said suit was decreed and revision application filed before this Court and Special Leave Application against said judgment was dismissed - As respondents were trying to execute said decree appellants filed aforesaid of their right title and interest over suit premises and for an injunction restraining defendants from executing decree passed – Held, It is clear that the plaintiffs suit for declaration of their title to the suit property and consequential relief of injunction is maintainable. However while granting interim injunction the Court is required to consider all the relevant facts i. e. prima facie case balance of convenience and irreparable injury to either party. The learned Judge has not decided the appellants case on merits - Court is required to decide it on merits after considering documentary evidence produced and affidavits produced by parties - As trial Court has not applied its mind to facts of case it would be necessary to send back this case to trial Court for determining it on merits - There will be no order as to costs - learned Judge may dispose of this application as far as possible within one month from date of receipt of record from this Court - Appeal from order is partly allowed.
( 1 ) THE appellants plaintiffs have preferred this Appeal against the judgment and order dated 25/01/1983 passed by the Chamber Judge Court No. 12 City Civil Court Ahmedabad on Exhibit 2 being an injunction application filed by them.
( 2 ) AGAINST appellants a dec-en under section 6 of the Specific Relief Act was passed in Civil Suit No. 203/80 filed by the respondents Nos. 1 and 2. Respondent No. 3 Darveshali Masjid Ahmedabad is a public religious trust which is managed by respondents Nos. 3/1 to 3/7 as its trustees. Respondents Nos. 1 and 2 claim that they are the tenants in respect of some portion situated between two pillars of a wall of Darveshali Masjid on Pirmohmed Shah Road Pankornaka Ahmedabad which is near the footpath. Respondents Nos. 1 and 2 have filed the abovesaid suit for recovering the possession of the suit premises under sec. 6 of the Specific Relief Act 1963 as the appellants took the possession of the said premises unlawfully. The said suit was decreed and the revision application filed before this Court and the Special Leave Application against the said judgment was dismissed. As the respondents Nos. 1 and 2 were trying to execute the said decree the appellants filed the aforesaid Civil Suit No. 123/83 before the City Civil Court Ahmedabad for a declaration of their right title and interest over the suit premises and for an injunction restraining the defendants from executing the decree passed in Civil Suit No. 2013/80. In the said suit they filed an interim injunction application. The learned Chamber Judge rejected the Notice of Motion and refused to grant the interim relief on the ground that by grant of interim injunction the decree passed under sec. 6 (1) of the Specific Relief Act would be frustrated and by relying upon the judgment in the case of PARMANAND and OTHERS V. SMT. CHHIMMAWATI and ANOTHER REPORTED IN A. I. R. 1955 ALLAHABAD 64 held that if such an injunction is granted the very object and purpose of the suit for possession under sec. 6 of the Specific Relief Act would be frustrated and the person who takes the law in his own hand and forcibly dispossesses another otherwise than in accordance with law would be in a position to frustrate the execution of the decree without discussing evidence on merits. The learned Judge held that once a judgment and decree under sec. 6 (1) of the Specific Relief Act is passed the appellants would not have any prima facie case. He held that the persons who are forcibly dispossessed should be restored to the possession of the property in question when they have obtained the judgment and decree in their favour from the competent Court and hence the balance of convenience will be in their favour.
( 3 ) THE learned advocate appearing on behalf of the appellants had pointed out that the learned Judge had relied upon a judgment of the Allahabad High Court which is overruled by the said Court in 1972 in the case of CHUNNI V. SULLAHAR REPORTED IN A. I. R. 1972 ALLAHABAD 412 wherein the Allahabad High Court has relied upon the judgment in the case of MARI DEDDATAMMA MARKUNDI V. SANTAYA RAM KRISHNA PAI KOLLE A. I. R. 1922 BOMBAY 216.
( 4 ) IN the case of MARI DEDDATAMMA MARKUNDI V. SANTAYA RAM KRISHNA PAI KOLLE A. I. R. 1922 BOMBAY 216 the Court has held that the order or decree which is passed under sec. 9 of the Specific Relief Act (now sec. 6 of the Specific Relief Act 1963 is not open to appeal or to review at the instance of the defeated party and the section expressly provides that nothing contained therein shall bar any person from giving to establish his title to such property and to recover possession thereof. There the appellant had brought Suit No. 293/17 in the Court of the Subordinate Judge for restoration of possession under sec. 9 of the Specific Relief Act and a decree was passed in his favour. But before he could execute the said decree the respondent of that case instituted a suit to establish his title to the lands in dispute and to o
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