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2018 Supreme(Gau) 1476

IN THE HIGH COURT OF GAUHATI
MIR ALFAZ ALI, J.
Rahmat Ullah – Appellant
Vs.
Md. Sayed Ali and Ors. – Respondents
RSA No. 66 of 2007
Decided On : 30-08-2018

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :M.S.I. Hussain, Advocate

Headnote:

Constitution Of India, 1950 - Section 109, 13391)(a) – Civil Procedure Code ,1908 - Section 110 - Amendment Act, 1973 – Criminal Procedure Code,1973 –Section 145 - Evidence Act - Section 101 - Plaintiff was that suit land - Appeal is by defendant against concurrent finding of First Appellate Court in Title Appeal whereby suit filed by plaintiff was dismissed and brief facts leading to present second appeal were - Respondent as plaintiff filed Title Suit for declaration of right title and recovery of khans possession and case of plaintiff was that suit land originally belong to one Ali and plaintiff purchased suit land from said on by registered sale deed and got mutation there over and defendant having their land adjacent to land of plaintiff tried to encroach upon suit land where upon plaintiff instituted a criminal proceeding under Section Criminal Procedure Code and criminal court declared possession of plaintiff and when plaintiff had been possessing suit land peacefully defendants dispossessed plaintiff from suit land forcibly on and hence plaintiffs filed suit – Held, Questions raised in this second appeal are apparently related to finding of courts below as regards identity of suit land and identity of vendor of plaintiff which are palpably question of facts and findings of arrived at by both courts unanimously - on appreciation of evidence are not amenable to second appeal and both substantial question are answered accordingly and when admittedly was owner of suit land and sold suit land in by a registered deed subsequent sale deed in respect of same land purportedly executed in was incapable of conveying incompetent to convey any title and as such both courts below rightly came to concurrent finding that plaintiff failed to establish his title over suit land and Such concurrent findings of facts are obviously immune from challenge in second appeal and Court find no merit in this second appeal and Send down LCR – Second appeal dismissed

JUDGMENT :

Mir Alfaz Ali, J.

1. This second appeal is by the defendant, against the concurrent finding of the First Appellate Court in Title Appeal, whereby the suit filed by the plaintiff was dismissed.

2. Brief facts leading to the present second appeal were that the respondent as plaintiff filed Title Suit No. 73/1999 for declaration of right, title and recovery of khas possession. The case of the plaintiff was that the suit land originally belong to one Jafar Ali and plaintiff purchased the suit land from said Jafar Ali on 02.04.1994 by registered sale deed No. 210/94 and got mutation thereover. The defendant having their land adjacent to the land of the plaintiff, tried to encroach upon the suit land, where upon the plaintiff instituted a criminal proceeding under Section 145 Cr.P.C. and the criminal court declared possession of the plaintiff. When the plaintiff had been possessing the suit land peacefully, the defendants dispossessed the plaintiff from the suit land forcibly on 10.01.1999 and hence the plaintiffs filed the suit.

3. The pleaded case of the defendant was that the suit land was purchased by Jafar Ali in an auction sale in auction sale case No. 74/67-68. Said Jafar Ali sold the land to one Roshan Ali by sale deed No. 1576/1969 and Roshan Ali in turn sold the suit land to Mustt Dudhjan Nessa, the mother of the defendants No. 3, 4 & 5. It was further pleaded in the joint written statement by all the defendants that the defendants No. 1, 2 & 6 did not have any right, title and interest over the suit land and only the defendants No. 3, 4 & 5 claimed right, title and interest over the suit land as legal heirs of Dudhjan Begum.

4. On the basis of the above pleadings, learned Munsiff framed the following issues:

(i) Whether there is any cause of action?

(ii) Whether the plaintiff has right, title and interest over the suit land?

(iii) Whether the plaintiff purchased the suit land from the original pattadar i.e. from the auction purchaser Md. Jafar Ali by executing registered sale deed?

(iv) Whether the plaintiff possessed the suit land continuously from the date of purchase?

(v) Whether the plaintiff was dispossessed from the suit land on 10.1.98 by the defendant?

(vi) Whether the plaintiff is entitled for a decree of khas possession?

(vii) Whether the possession of the suit land was declared in favour of plaintiff under a proceeding of 145 Cr.P.C. by the Ld. Executive Magistrate?

(viii) To what relief or relief's if any the plaintiff is entitled for?

(ix) Whether the suit is bad for non-joinder of necessary party?

(x) Whether the land purchased by the Musstt. Dudhjan Nessa from Roshan Ali Mandal vide Regd. Sale deed No. 1130/71 dated 28.12.71 is same and identical with the suit land purchased by the plaintiff from Jafar Ali on 02.04.94 vide regd. Sale deed No. 210/94?

(xi) Whether the defendants go right, title and interest upon the suit land on the strength of sale deed No. 1130/71?

5. Both the parties adduced evidence and the learned Munsiff after hearing the parties dismissed the suit with cost. Aggrieved, the plaintiff preferred an appeal and the learned Civil Judge, by the impugned judgment and decree dismissed the appeal as well as the suit of the plaintiff.

6. Aggrieved by the judgment and decree of the first appellate court, the plaintiff preferred the instant second appeal, which was admitted to be heard on the following substantial questions of law.

"(i) Whether the learned court below failed to differentiate the suit land with that of the scheduled land of the registered sale deed No. 1130/71 dated 28.12.71 which contains land measuring 1B, 3K, 15Ls out of 5 bighas of land while the DWs failed to identify the boundaries of the land and wrongly held that the suit land measuring 1B, 3K, 19Ls is the same and identical with Ext. K?

(ii) Whether the learned court below failed to appreciate the evidence available on records while the respondent/defendant has admitted in their written statement that Jafar Ali purchased the suit l
















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