IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI, J.
Islaudeen - Appellant
Vs.
Shanti Lal Singhvi - Respondent
Civil Writ Petition No. 4551 of 2018
Decided On : 03-04-2018
Civil Procedure Code - 1950 - Section 151 - Rule 11 - Order 7 - Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act - Section 26(a) - Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act, 1961 - Section 7, 10, 11 & 26(a) - Immovable Property – Payment – Claim - After hearing counsel for parties perusing record and precedent law this Court is of opinion that bare reading of plaint plaintiff has infect made averments in that defendants to have claimed their ownership over land in question was wrong and baseless - This constitutes denial plaintiffs title and therefore impugned order bringing petition under purview of Section of Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act is correct – Held, Instant writ petition has been filed by petitioner assailing validity and correctness of order dated by Civil Judge City North Udaipur whereby application under Order Rule read with Section Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act preferred by respondent defendant has been accepted and direction has been issued to plaintiff determine appropriate valuation of suit compute pay court-Fees within fifteen days from date of passing order otherwise suit shall stand rejected – Petition allowed
Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J.
The petitioner has preferred this writ petition for the following relief’s :-
"(i) by an appropriate writ, order or direction, the impugned order dated 16.03.2018 (Annex.4) passed by Civil Judge, City North Udaipur in Civil Suit No. 197/2015 to the extent of allowing the application under Order 7, Rule 11 (b) read with Section 7, 10, 11 & 26(a) of the Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act, 1961 may kindly be quashed and set aside and consequently the application in this regard preferred by the respondent no.1 may kindly be rejected with costs.
(ii) Any other appropriate writ, order or direction which this Hon'ble Court deems just and proper may kindly be passed in favour of the petitioner."
(iii) writ petition filed by the petitioner may kindly be allowed with costs."
2. The instant writ petition has been filed by the petitioner assailing validity and correctness of order dated 16.3.2018 (Annex.4) passed by Civil Judge City North, Udaipur whereby the application under Order 7, Rule 11(b) of CPC read with Section 7, 10, 11 & 26(a) of the Rajasthan Court Fees and Valuation Act, 1961 preferred by the respondent no.1/defendant has been accepted and a direction has been issued to the plaintiff to determine appropriate valuation of suit and compute and pay the court-fees within fifteen days from the date of passing of order otherwise the suit shall stand rejected.
3. Counsel for the petitioner argued that his prayer of the plaint does not amount to averment pertaining to denial of his title to the property in-question. Counsel for the petitioner further averred that Section 27(c) of the Rajasthan Court Fees and Suit Valuation act, 1961 will apply in his present case. Counsel for the petitioner to strengthen his argument cited precedent law of this Court in the matter of Jugal Kishore v. Bankat Lal & Ors., reported in DNJ (Raj.) 1996 page 739, relevant portion whereof reads as follows :
"13. I have considered the arguments. Wherever a Court is called upon to examine the question of adequacy of Court fees, it must be considered with reference to the allegations as laid in the plaint and not with reference to the case as set-up by the defendants. For this, the substance and nature of the claim of the plaintiff with reference to the averments made therein must be ascertained and then the appropriate provisions of the Act must be applied for ascertaining whether the proper Court fees has been paid or not. I have examined the plaints in both the cases. While narrating the facts of the cases, I have quoted the relief paras of the plaints. In 611/95 also the facts are not different. The plaintiff alleged that the plaintiffs and other members of a joint family owned certain property. The disputed property has been denoted by letters A, B, C & D. The plaintiff claimed physical possession over this piece of land came to the share of Shri Ganpat Lal and Smt. Ayodhya Devi W/o. Shri Ganpat Lal, sold the above land to the family of the plaintiff. The plaintiff also constructed a boundary over the above plot with the permission of the Gram Panchayat in the year 1961. He, therefore, alleged that the defendant was making efforts to grab the above land and with this object in view placed certain stones and also damaged the main door. The plaintiff, therefore, sought permanent injunction restraining the defendant from interfering with his possession and also for mandatory injunction asking the defendant to remove the stones and repair the damage done to the main door. From the above averments it is clear that the plaintiff only claimed relief of permanent as well as mandatory injunction claiming his own possession. A scrutiny of the whole plaint would also lead to the same conclusion. Hence, the learned appellate Court has correctly held that the plaintiff has paid Court fees in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the order of the learned trial court was illegal and passed with material irregularity.
I, therefore, f
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