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2019 Supreme(Raj) 289

IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
PRATAP KRISHNA LOHRA, J.
Ratan Lal and Ors - Appellant
Versus
Sosar Bai and Ors - Respondent
S.B. Civil Second Appeal No. 138 of 2018
Decided On : 21-01-2019

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Suresh Shrimali, Advocate
For the Respondent:A.K. Babel, Advocate

Headnote:

Civil procedure code - 1908 - Section 100 - Rule 27 - Order 41 – Issue - Case are original respondent-plaintiffs since deceased filed suit for eviction and arrears of rent against original defendant grounds default in payment rent and reasonable & bona fide necessity stating therein that the suit premises shop is needed business of her two unemployed sons original defendant contested the suit by filing written statement refuting all the averments made in plaint and denied claim plaintiffs n respect of default and reasonable & bona fide necessity –Held, judgments cited by counsel for appellant-defendants being distinguishable facts are of no avail appellant-defendants and exception provided has not been made out instant case and therefore contention of learned counsel for the appellant-defendants having force deserves to be disallowed - so called substantial questions law are apparently questions of fact and not questions law and therefore concurrent findings with regard thereto cannot be gone second appeal even if they are erroneous – In absence of any substantial question of law involved present appeal no interference is warranted in exercise of jurisdiction – Appeal dismissed

JUDGMENT :

PRATAP KRISHNA LOHRA, J.

1. Appellant-defendants, remaining unsuccessful before this Court as well as Apex Court in their attempts to get favourable orders on their applications including under Order 41 Rule 27 CPC and being aggrieved by concurrent findings of two Courts below decreeing the suit filed by respondent-plaintiffs, have laid the present second appeal under Sec. 100 CPC. The Addl. District Judge No. 1, Bhilwara (for short, 'Appellate Court') vide impugned judgment & decree dt. 08.05.2018 has dismissed their appeal against judgment and decree dt 28.04.2004, passed by Additional Civil Judge, Bhilwara (for short, 'learned trial Court').

2. Brief facts of the case are that original respondent-plaintiffs Smt. Sosar Bai (since deceased) filed a suit for eviction and arrears of rent against original defendant Ratanlal on the grounds of default in payment of rent and reasonable & bona fide necessity stating therein that the suit premises shop is needed for business of her two unemployed sons Rameshwar and Badrilal. The original defendant Ratan Lal contested the suit by filing a written statement refuting all the averments made in the plaint and denied the claim of plaintiffs in respect of default and reasonable & bona fide necessity. Original defendant Ratanal expired on 06.05.2000 and an application was moved on 20.07.2000 to implead his legal representatives and one Dalpat Singh also, who was carrying on business in the disputed shop at the time of death of original defendant and learned trial Court allowed impleadment of legal heirs of original defendant Ratan Lal as party defendants to the suit. One more application was filed before the learned trial Court for amendment under Order 6 Rule 17 on 17.04.2001 for adding para No. 4A in the plaint to the effect that defendant acquired another shop, therefore, not in need of the suit shop. In reply to that application, original defendant inter-alia stated that his business cannot be carried out at the indicated place. Thereafter, learned trial Court added one more issue as Issue No. 4A to the already framed four issues stemming from the pleadings of the parties and recorded evidence of rival parties. Learned trial Court, after hearing the parties, decreed the suit as aforesaid. Aggrieved by the said judgment and decree, legal representatives of original defendant filed an appeal before appellate Court.

3. During the pendency of the appeal, original-plaintiffs Smt. Sosar Bai expired and her legal representatives were brought on record. The defendants moved an application under Order 41 Rule 27 CPC on 10.08.2005 and claimed that respondent plaintiffs have another shop in Somani Katla, which is also a commercial place and referred to their reply to application under Order 6 Rule 17 stating that the mentioned shop came to the share of their brother Lalit Kumar, which has been demolished and there remains only vacant plot and prayed for taking the documents on record. The learned appellate Court, vide order dt. 11.11.2005, dismissed the application of appellant defendants filed under Order 41 Rule 27 CPC against which the appellant-defendants filed a writ petition bearing SBCW Petition No. 7257/2005 but same was later on not pressed and withdrawn on 22.08.2007 with liberty to challenge the impugned order on appropriate grounds in the appeal pending before appellate Court. The appellant-defendants also filed another application under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC for amendment of the written statement on 04.03.2004 stating therein that the suit was filed for necessity of Rameshwar Lal and Badrilal and as Rameshwar Lai expired on 05.05.2011 and before his death he had filed a suit for partition against his brother Badrilal, in which partition of the suit premises also sought, in view of subsequent events amendment application may be allowed.

4. The appellant-defendants further filed one more application under Order 41 Rule 27 CPC and sought to produce certain documents of partition suit








































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