IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT RAJASTHAN
P.K. LOHRA, J.
Swati Bhatia - Appellant
Versus
Lalit Upadhyay Shastri - Respondent
Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 955 of 2018
Decided On : 06-09-2018
Civil Procedure Code - 1908 - Rule 1 & 2 - Order 39 - Rajasthan Pre-emption Act 1966 - Section 8 – Injury - Terms - Immovable property - Fact pertaining to purchase of roofs of all aforementioned shops by Sunder admeasuring from is also incorporated in plaint with material particulars about date of registered instrument as of September - Respondent-plaintiffs also pleaded that after execution of sale-deed of September proforma respondent second-defendant preferred civil suit for preemption against Sunder and Temple Board before & Judicial Magistrate bearing Civil Suit and said suit was decided on of December – Held, There cannot be two opinions that besides prima facie case balance of convenience and irreparable loss are also necessary ingredients for grant of temporary injunction – Court also constrained to record my indignation for reason that learned Court below has decided balance of convenience and irreparable injury in an absolutely casual and cursory manner inasmuch as finding on these two ingredients is not supported by reasons much less sufficient reasons – Therefore viewed from any angle impugned order cannot be sustained – Appeal allowed
P.K. LOHRA, J.
1. Appellant (defendant), a bona fide purchaser of immovable property, has approached this Court for vindicating her rights vis-a-vis the property which are emanated from a registered instrument of sale. The endeavour of the appellant is to get rid of temporary restraining order dated 14th of February 2018, passed by Additional District & Sessions Judge, Nathdwara, District Rajsamand (for short, 'learned trial Court'), foreclosing her rights to raise construction on the property in question. Order impugned came into offing due to indulgence granted by the learned trial Court upon allowing application for temporary injunction of the respondent-plaintiff in their suit for preemption with consequential reliefs and perpetual injunction.
2. Succinctly stated, the facts of the case are that respondent-plaintiffs instituted a civil suit against appellant-defendant and other proforma respondents for craving aforementioned reliefs. In the plaint, it is inter-alia averred by the respondent-plaintiffs that all of them are legal heirs of Late Shri Shyam Sunder Upadhyay, who purchased shops No.15, 16, 17 & 18 from Goswami Tilkayat Shri Govindlal, by a registered sale-deed dated 15th of March 1971. It is further averred that after demise of Shri Shyam Sunder, all of them are in possession of the property as its owner. A fact pertaining to purchase of roofs of all the aforementioned shops by Shri Shyam Sunder Upadhyay admeasuring 12 x 23 sq.ft. from Tilkayat Shri Govindlal is also incorporated in the plaint with material particulars about date of registered instrument as 24th of September, 1997. The respondent-plaintiffs also pleaded that after execution of sale-deed dated 24th of September 1997, proforma respondent No.9/second-defendant, preferred a civil suit for preemption against Shri Shyam Sunder Upadhyay and Nathdwara Temple Board, Nathdwara before Munsif & Judicial Magistrate, Nathdwara bearing Civil Suit No.213 of 1978 and the said suit was decided on 5th of December, 1980. As per positive assertion of the respondent-plaintiffs, in Civil Suit No.213/78, Court has acknowledged and recognized right of preemption by treating both the properties of co-ownership.
3. By asserting all these facts, a specific plea was incorporated in the pleadings that respondent-plaintiffs are having right of preemption vis-a-vis property owned by proforma respondent No.9/second-defendant and, therefore, it was obligatory on his part to have served a notice to the respondent-plaintiffs under Section 8 of the Rajasthan Pre-emption Act, 1966 (for short, 'Act') before entering into sale transaction with the appellant-defendant. Respondent-plaintiffs also mentioned in the plaint that predecessor-in-title of the appellant proforma respondent No.9 has transferred the property in question to appellant-defendant by a registered sale-deed dated 28th of October, 2016 by accepting consideration amount of Rs. 15 Lakhs dehors Section 8 of the Act. The dimensions of the property sold by proforma respondent No.9 to appellant with neighbour-hoods are also mentioned in the plaint.
4. The respondent-plaintiffs, while asserting their right of preemption have also pleaded in the plaint that had the proforma respondent No.9/second-defendant divulged requisite information to them, showing his intention to sale the property at aforementioned consideration amount, they could have purchased the same. Further, persisting with their plea of non-adherence of Section 8 of the Act, respondent-plaintiffs have stated in the plaint that proforma respondent No.9/second-defendant has not sought any consent of the respondent-plaintiffs before entering into sale transaction with the appellant, and therefore, the sale-deed dated 28th of October, 2016 is void and ineffective vis-a-vis their rights. Execution of sale-deed dated 28th of October 2016, therefore, according to respondent-plaintiffs has furnished right of preemption to them under Section 4 of the Act. With all these
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