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2010 Supreme(Gau) 126

IN THE HIGH COURT OF GAUHATI (AGARTALA BENCH)
Utpalendu Bikas Saha, J.
Smt. Purabii Dasgupta (Sarkar)
Vs.
Arun Kumar Dey and Anr.
Decided On: 19.02.2010

Headnote:

Constitution of India - Article 227 – Illegally – Limited – Tribunal – Evidence - As there was friendly relation between two families original owner and plaintiff petitioner, receipts for all payments were not obtained except for first installment from original owner - Then on repeated demand for execution of Kabala original owner denied to execute sale deed and had filed title Court of Subordinate Judge West Tripura for declaration of title and recovery of possession of perpetual injunction – Held, Considering aforesaid cases this Court in All Assam Lawyers Association noted that this being settled position of law on considering nature of decree and after being satisfied that procedure adopted by Court below was volatile of fundamental basic principles of justice and fair play and there was a flagrant patent error in procedure and having found that order has caused manifestly injustice to petitioned it was decided to entertain application under Article 227 of Constitution of India - In view of aforesaid views of this Court in All Assam Lawyers Association this Court has no hesitation to hold that a decree passed bypassing procedure prescribed without jurisdiction and being nullity and when caused injustice to a justice seeker can be interfered with to provide justice exercising its jurisdiction under Article 227 of Constitution of India - Accordingly this Court decides to entertain instant application under Article 227 of Constitution - Petition disposed of

ORDER

U.B. Saha, J.

1. By this application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner made a prayer for the quashing/setting aside the order dated 24-8-2005 passed by the learned civil Judge, Junior Division, Court No. 2, Agartala, West Tripura in Title Suit No. 45 of 2001 whereby and whereunder the instant suit filed by the petitioner as a plaintiff for a decree of mandatory injunction directing the defendants, respondents herein, to remove the fencing illegally erected by them in the suit land and also allow the plaintiff and her family members to reconstruct the said latrine and kitchen and to use them and also to use well standing on the suit land as well as for perpetual injunction restraining the defendant from interfering with the peaceful possession of the plaintiff over the suit land under threat for using the kitchen, latrine, well in the suit land, disposed of on contest being not maintainable in its present form and nature.

2. Heard Mr. K.N. Bhattacharjee, learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. S. Acherjee, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. R. Chakraborty, learned Counsel for the respondents.

3. The brief facts of the case are that the plaintiff petitioner by a registered sale deed dated 24-9-1980 purchased a plot of land measuring 4 gandas from one Nayan Ranjan Majumder for a consideration of Rs. 15,000/- which has been described as Schedule-B land. The said Sri Nayan Ranjan Majumder purchased the aforesaid B Scheduled land from one Smt. Swapna Dam wife of Sukesh Ch. Dam, the original owner of the Schedule-A land measuring 1 kani 2 gandas 2 kranta and 4 dhurs which has been described as A-Scheduled land. There was another plot of land measuring four and half ganda of the said Smt. Dam, the original owner adjacent to the Schedule-B land which has been described as Schedule-C land. When the original owner Smt. Swapna Dam wanted to sell the aforesaid C-scheduled land, the plaintiff petitioner along with her husband wished to purchase the said land and the price was also settled at Rs. 20,000/- and as agreed upon, a sum of Rs. 3001/- has also been paid by the plaintiff petitioner to the original owner on 17-3-1978. Thereafter, the husband of the plaintiff again paid a sum of Rs. 10,000/- on 12-10-1978 and another amount of Rs. 3000/- on 10-12-1978. As there was friendly relation between two families i.e. the original owner and the plaintiff petitioner, receipts for all payments were not obtained except for the first installment from the original owner. Then on repeated demand for execution of 'Kabala', the original owner Smt. Swapna Dam denied to execute the sale deed and had filed the title Suit No. TS 52 of 1981 in the Court of the Subordinate Judge, West Tripura, Agartala for declaration of title and recovery of possession of perpetual injunction.

4. It is also pleaded that in performance of agreement of sale, the husband of the original owner Swapna Dam on behalf of his wife had delivered the possession of the suit land to the plaintiff petitioner on 17-8-1978 while the first instalment of Rs. 3001/- was paid to them. However, the aforesaid suit was contested by the plaintiff petitioner as defendant No. 2 and she lost the suit up to the High Court. On the other hand, during pendency of the case before the High Court, the original owner, the plaintiff in TS 52 of 1981, Smt. Swapna Dam sold the suit land to the defendant, respondent No. 1 herein Consequent thereupon, though the suit was decreed in favour of the original owner, it was executed by the defendant respondent No. 1 by filing the execution case No. 27 (EX)T)/97 and recovered the possession of the Schedule-C land on 10-8-2001. The plaintiff petitioner also alleged in his plaint that when the defendant respondent No. 1 took the possession of the Scheduled-C land, he also demolished the latrine of the house of the plaintiff petitioner, damaged the pucca well, sanitary tank, kitchen room etc. standing on the Schedule-C land which is a p



































































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