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2009 Supreme(Guj) 364

IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.R. SHAH
ASHWINBHAI SOMABHAI PATEL & 1 - Petitioners
Versus
NRUGENDRAPRASADJI AJENDRAPRASADJI PANDEY & 6 - Respondents
SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 5048 of 2009
Decided on : 24/06/2009

Advocates appeared
MR S.N. SHELAT, Learned Senior Advocate with MR. MRUGEN K PUROHIT for Petitioner
NOTICE SERVED BY DS for Respondent
MR SP MAJMUDAR for Respondent
MR PP MAJMUDAR for Respondent

Headnote:

Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Order 39 - Rules 1 and 2 - Evidence Act, 1872 - Sections 65A and 65B - Petitioner has prayed for an appropriate writ, direction and order quashing and setting aside impugned order passed by the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Anand below application in Special Civil Suit by which the learned trial Court has allowed the said application submitted by the respondent No.1 herein original defendant No.1 to read the documents as produced vide Exh. 54/1 and to appreciate the same for the purpose of hearing and adjudication of application - At the outset, it is required to be noted that the said documents are in the form of Compact Disk - Held, trial Court cannot be restrained from considering the documents inclusive of affidavit for the purpose of forming an opinion on prima facie case while deciding the interim injunction application. Under the circumstances, it cannot be said that learned trial Court has committed any error and/ or illegality and / or impugned order is without jurisdiction and/or exceeded jurisdiction not vested in it, which call for interference of this Court in exercise of powers under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. On the contrary, it appears that learned trial Court has tried to strike balance and kept all the question with respect to the admissibility of document in question in evidence kept open. Still while dismissing the present Special Civil Application it is specifically observed that all the questions with respect to admissibility of the documents in question is kept open and the same is required to be considered at an appropriate stage of the trial. Even as observed by the learned trial Court the petitioners original plaintiffs can make submission with respect to the document in question at the time of hearing of the application Exh.5. Any observations made by the learned trial Court in the impugned order with respect to admissibility of document in question in evidence as per Section 65 A and B of the Indian Evidence Act are to be treated as tentative while deciding the said application only and by which it cannot be construed that learned trial Court has held that the said document in question is admissible in evidence. As stated above, the said question is kept open to be considered at an appropriate stage in the trial- Petition dismissed.

JUDGMENT

1. Rule. Mr. S.P. Majmudar, learned advocate waives service of notice of rule on behalf of the respondent No.1 original defendant No.1, who is main contesting party so far as the present Special Civil Application is concerned. With the consent of the learned advocates appearing on behalf of the respective parties, the matter is taken up for final hearing today.

2. By way of this petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, petitioner has prayed for an appropriate writ, direction and order quashing and setting aside impugned order dated 14.5.2009 passed by the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Anand below application Exh. 167 in Special Civil Suit No. 86 of 2008, by which the learned trial Court has allowed the said application submitted by the respondent No.1 herein original defendant No.1 to read the documents as produced vide Exh. 54/1 and to appreciate the same for the purpose of hearing and adjudication of application Exh.5. At the outset, it is required to be noted that the said documents are in the form of Compact Disk (C.D.).

3. Petitioners original plaintiffs (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs .) have instituted Special Civil Suit No. 86 of 2008 in the Court of learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Anand for declaration and permanent injunction declaring that respondent No.1 herein original defendant No.1 shall not declare himself to be Acharya of various Swaminarayan Temples at Vadtal, Junagadh, Gadhda etc. In the said suit original plaintiffs submitted application Exh. 5 for interim injunction and it appears that learned trial Court has granted ex-parte ad interim injunction in terms of para 28(A) and 28(B) of the application, vide ex parte interim injunction dated 15.5.2008 and the said application is still pending for final disposal. That the respondent No.1 herein original defendant No.1 (hereinafter referred to as the defendant No.1) submitted the reply to the said application along with certain documents. Defendant No.1 also produced the documents vide Exh. 54/1 which was in the Electronic Form i.e. Compact Disc. Therefore, the defendant No.1 submitted application Exh. 167 requesting the learned trial Court to read, produce and accordingly appreciate the same for the purpose of hearing and adjudication of the application Exh.5. It was contended on behalf of the defendant No.1 that the said Electronic record/ documents in Electronic Form i.e. Video Tape depicting happening / fact or event/ incident having occurred in the year 1984 i.e. the nomination of defendant No.1 as the future Acharya being caused in the event having occurred in the year 1984. It was submitted that in the course of argument on behalf of the defendant and the learned advocate requested the learned trial Court to read the said Electronic documents through medium of computer, learned advocate for the plaintiffs has opposed said essential process of only reading the documents in Electronic Form and, therefore, the said application was given to read, peruse and appreciate by using computer. It was submitted that the said documents in the form of C.D./ which was in the Electronic Form is required to be read and appreciate for the purpose of hearing and adjudication of the application Exh.5. Therefore, it was requested to read, peruse and accordingly appreciate the said documents which was in Electronic From for the purpose of hearing and adjudication of the application Exh.5 and for the aforesaid purpose and appreciate to use the computer for the purpose of reading the said documents.

4. The aforesaid application was opposed by the plaintiffs by submitting the application Exh. 168 by submitting that the documents in question are not admissible in evidence. It was also submitted that considering the various provisions under the Information Technology (Certifying Authorities) Rules 2000; the Information Technology (Certifying Authorities) Regulation 2001; the Information Technology (Qualification and Experience of Adju





























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