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2022 Supreme(Gau) 138

IN THE HIGH COURT OF GAUHATI, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Robin Phukan, J.
Sri. Kulendra Nath Kakati and ors. – Petitioners
Versus
Sri. Bhabesh Baruah Son of Sri. Achyut Baruah and ors. – Respondents
CRP/113 of 2019
Decided On : 21-03-2022

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Ghanashyam Das
For the Respondent: Mr. D. K. Kakoty, Adv.

Point of Law : A person, including a stranger, could maintain a petition under Rule 97 of Order XXI and object and get adjudication when he sought to be dispossessed by the decree holder. The expression ^ny person' under sub-clause (1) Rule 97 include *all person. a person, including a stranger, could maintain a petition under Rule 97 of Order XXI and object and get adjudication when he sought to be dispossessed by the decree holder. The expression ^ny person' under sub-clause (1) Rule 97 include *all person.

Headnote:

Civil Procedure Code,1908 - Section 47, 151 and Order 21 Rule 97 and 101 and Section - Land - Deed of Sale - Respondent, as plaintiff, has instituted Title Suit against respondents - and in the said Title Suit, respondent, got a degree for a plot of land - Thereafter, respondent, filed a Title Execution Case before learned Civil Judge and while the case was pending for execution, respondent got executed a Deed of Sale of land through learned Civil Judge on 27.11.2014, without modifying the decree which was for a plot of land - Thereafter, the present petitioners, whose land also allegedly falls in decreetal land, filed an application, before learned Civil Judge which is registered as Misc. (J) Case No. 458/2014, under Section 47 read with Rule 97 & 101 of Order 21 and Section 151 of Code of Civil Procedure, apprehending that if respondent proceed for execution of decree land, then remaining of land of petitioners would come into decreetal land as decree for 4 Kathas 2 Lechas of land remained in force.

Finding of the Court: They also could not establish that decree is void-ab-initio and is a nullity and it is not capable of execution under the law, either because it was passed in ignorance of such provision of law or law was promulgated making a decree in executable after its passing - Since none of the aforementioned eventualities, as recognized in law for rendering a decree in executable, petitioners could not maintain an application under Section 47 - In holding so we derived authority from a decision of Hon'ble Supreme Court reported in Dhurandhar Prasad Singh vs. Jai Prakash University and Others, AIR 2001 SC 2552 - Thus, having tested the impugned orders, passed by the learned Civil Judge, arising out of Title Execution Case on touchstone of principles discussed, court find that same suffers from no illegality or impropriety requiring any interference of this Court - In the result, court find no merit in this.

Result: Civil Revision dismissed

JUDGMENT :

1. Order dated 04.05.2017, passed by the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), in Misc. (J) Case No. 458/2014, arising out of Title Execution Case No. 04/2013, and order dated 04.05.2019, passed by the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, in Misc. (J) Case No. 600/2017, arising out of Title Execution Case No. 04/2013, are impugned in this Civil Revision Petition filed under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure by the petitioners, namely, Sri Kulendra Nath Kakati & Smt. Surabi Kakati.

It is to be mentioned here that vide impugned order dated 04.05.2017, the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, had dismissed the petition filed under Section 47 and Order 21 Rule 97 and 101 of the Code of Civil Procedure and vide impugned order, dated 04.05.2019, the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, had dismissed the petition filed by the petitioners under Order 47 Rule 1 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure for reviewing the order dated 04.05.2017.

2. The factual background leading to filing of the present petition is briefly stated as under :-

    “The respondent, Sri Bhabesh Baruah, as plaintiff, has instituted Title Suit No. 87/2006 against the respondents. Tikendra Nath Kakati & Ors., and in the said Title Suit, the respondent, Sri Bhabesh Baruah, got a degree for a plot of land measuring 4 Kathas 2 Lechas covered by Kheraj Myadi Patta No. 81, 82 (Old), 138 (New), Dag No. 60 (Old)/60 (New). Thereafter, the respondent, Sri Bhabesh Baruah, filed a Title Execution Case No. 04/2013 before the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati and while the case was pending for execution, the respondent got executed a Deed of Sale for 3 Kathas 3 Lechas of land through the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, on 27.11.2014, without modifying the decree dated 04.12.2012, which was for a plot of land measuring 4 Kathas 2 Lechas. Thereafter, the present petitioners, whose land also allegedly falls in the decreetal land, filed an application, before the learned Civil Judge No.1 , which is registered as Misc. (J) Case No. 458/2014, under Section 47 read with Rule 97 & 101 of Order 21 and Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure on 27.11.2014, apprehending that if the respondent proceed for execution of the decree for 4 Kathas 2 Lechas of land, then the remaining 19 Lechas of land of the petitioners would come into the decreetal land as the decree for 4 Kathas 2 Lechas of land remained in force. But, the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, after hearing both the parties, dismissed the petition No. 458/2014, filed by the petitioners. Thereafter, the petitioners again filed one petition before the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, under Order 47 Rule 1 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, upon which, Misc. (J) Case No. 600/2017 has been registered and after hearing the parties, the learned Civil Judge No. 1, Kamrup (M), Guwahati, dismissed the same vide order dated 04.05.2019.

3. Being highly aggrieved, the petitioners approached this Court by filing the present Civil Revision Petition on the grounds:

    (i) that, the learned Court below has failed to consider that in the said Execution Case, the land of the petitioners are involved;

(ii) that, the learned Court below failed to consider the fact that identification of boundaries of the suit land, as mentioned in the execution proceeding, is not correct as the land of the petitioners are also situated within the said boundaries;

(iii) that, the entire case required to be reopened on the ground that the petitioners have right to seek adjudication of their claim over the suit land as provided under Order 21 Rule 101 of the Code of Civil Procedure;

(iv) that, the learned Court below failed to consider the fact that the Executing Court cannot go beyond the decree and allowed the respondent to got part of the same executed;

(v) that, the execution of the Deed of Sale on 27.11.2014 at Guwahati by the

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