IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR
J.K. RANKA, J.
Deendayal – Petitioner
Vs.
Pitam Singh and ors. – Respondent
SB Civil Writ Petition No.20044/2013
Decided On : 30.4.2015
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Order 1 - Rule 10 - Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 - Section 88, 188 and 230 - Transfer of Property Act - Section 52 - Property - Temporary injunction - Original defendant No.1 from alienating suit property - Thereafter, respondents No. 1 to 3 moved an application for impleading them as parties to suit and such application was rejected by Assistant Collector observing that suit property was purchased in disobedience of injunction order of Court and such persons have no right to be impleaded in suit - Such order was assailed before Board of Revenue in a Revision Petition and Board of Revenue - Order of Board of Revenue, impleading respondents No.1 to 3 as parties who were alleged to have purchased suit property in defiance of injunction order of trial court, is bad in law - He vehemently contended that persons, purchasing suit property involved in a pending litigation even after restraining order of Court, have no vested right or equity in their favour so as to claim their impleadment as parties in suit - In support thereof, he relied upon judgment rendered by Honble Apex Court in the case – Held, Applicants-respondents were impleaded as defendants in suit only on this count that judgment has laid down an absolute rule that transferee pendente lite ought to be allowed to join as party in all cases - This Court is of the opinion that such conclusion drawn by the Board of Revenue without noticing facts and circumstances of case specially referred to herein before and other parameters with regard to impleadment of a party is bad in law and hence is hereby set aside and matter is remanded back to Board of Revenue with direction to rehear and decide revision petition afresh by assessing and evaluating the application for impleadment as parties - Court can, at any stage of proceedings, either on an application made by parties or otherwise direct impleadment of any person as party who ought to have been joined as Plaintiff or Defendant or whose presence before the Court is necessary for effective and complete adjudication of the issues involved in suit - Parties are directed to appear before the Board of Revenue on which date the petitioners will produce a copy of this order and Board of Revenue shall fix a date for hearing of the revision petition - Board of Revenue shall ultimately hear and decide the revision petition in light of observations made herein above within a period of three months from date certified copy of this order is placed before it - Writ petition stands disposed of
1. The core issue which arises for consideration in the instant petition is whether persons, who have purchased the suit property in defiance of an injunction order passed by the Court, are entitled tobe imleaded as parties in the pending suit.
2. Undisputed facts that emerge are that the plaintiffpetitioner has filed a suit under Section 88 and 188 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 in the court of Assistant Collector, Dholpur against respondent No.4 (original defendant No.1), now represented through legal representatives i.e. respondents No. 4/1/ to 4/3. Alongwith the suit, an application under Section 217 for the relief of temporary injunction was also filed. The trial court restrained the original defendant No.1 from alienating the suit property on 19/11/2002. Thereafter, the respondents No. 1 to 3 moved an application under Order 1 Rule 10 CPC for impleading them as parties to the suit and such application was rejected by the Assistant Collector, Dholpur on 06/06/2005 observing that the suit property was purchased in disobedience of the injunction order of the Court dt.19/11/2002 and such persons have no right to be impleaded in the suit. Such order was assailed before the Board of Revenue in a Revision Petition under Section 230 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 and the Board of Revenue, placing reliance on a judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in Savitri Devi Vs. District Judge, Gorakhpur & ors.: (1999) DNJ (SC) 178, allowed the revision petition and quashed & set aside the order dt. 06/06/2005 passed by the Sub Divisional Officer, Dholpur and impleaded the respondents No. 1 to 3 as defendants in the case.
3. Ld. counsel for the petitioner submitted that the order of the Board of Revenue, impleading respondents No.1 to 3 as parties, who were alleged to have purchased the suit property in defiance of the injunction order of the trial court, is bad in law. He vehemently contended that the persons, purchasing the suit property involved in a pending litigation even after restraining order of the Court, have no vested right or equity in their favour so as to claim their impleadment as parties in the suit. In support thereof, he relied upon the judgment rendered by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Surjit and others Vs. Harbans Singh and others: AIR 1996 (SC) 135 and so also the judgments rendered by coordinate Bench of this Court at Jaipur in the case of Smt. Kamla Vs. Somnath Grah Nirman Sahakari Samiti Limited & others, SB Civil Writ petition No.6218/2011, decided on 14/12/2011 and Kishan Sharma & Anr. Vs. Gram Panchayat, Niwaru & ors, SB Civil Writ Petition No.11308/2009, decided on 05/01/2012.
4. Per-contra, ld. counsel for the respondents, supporting the impugned order of the Board of Revenue, contended that the respondents were necessary and proper parties and the Board of Revenue, by rightly applying the ratio laid down in the case of Savitri Devi Vs. District Judge, Gorakhpur & ors. (supra), committed no error in setting aside trial court's order in impleading them as defendants in the suit and in support thereof, relied upon the judgments rendered by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Amit Kumar Shaw & Anr. Vs. Farida Khatoon & Anr.: 2005(3) Supreme 670 and A.Nawab John & ors. Vs. V.N. Subramaniyam: 2012 DNJ (SC) 720.
5. Heard counsel for the parties and carefully perused the material available on record.
6. Order 1 Rule 10(2) CPC empowers the court to delete or add parties to a suit at any stage of the proceedings, read as under:-
“10 (2) Court may strike out or add parties -The Court may at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without the application of either party, and on such terms as may appear to the Court to be just, order that the name of any party improperly joined, whether as Plaintiff or Defendant, be struck out, and that the name, of any person who ought to have been joined, whether as Plaintiff or Defendant, or whose presence before the Court may be necessary in order to enable the C
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