IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
Dinesh Mehta, J.
Jay Singh - Appellant
Versus
Board Of Revenue - Respondent
Civil Writ Petition No. 4860 of 2019
Decided On : 11-11-2019
Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 - Section 230 - Assertion that disputed property - Ancestral property – Maintainable - Interlocutory order - Writ petition at hand has been preferred against order has been dismissed observing that appeal before Revenue Appellate Authority was not maintainable - Petitioners favor on which was subsequently vacated by Assistant Collector- Sub-Divisional Officer order in pursuance of an application which was filed by present respondent who contended that petitioners father had sold subject land to him - It was further asserted that property in question was self acquired property of petitioners - Appellate Authority was challenged by petitioner before Board of Revenue by way of filing a revision petition - Held, This Court is of firm view that Court below could not have vacated ad-interim order at instance of respondent purchaser of property who was neither a party nor any impalement application was filed by him - Before passing any order of vacating or modifying interim order respondent is required to be imp leaded as party to list - Impugned orders passed by Assistant Collector Sub-Divisional Officer order passed by Revenue Appellate Authority so also order passed by Board of Revenue are quashed and set aside - Respondent alleging himself to be a purchaser of land will be at liberty to move an impalement application - In case his application is allowed and he is impleaded as party he shall be free to file application seeking vacation/modification of ad-interim order - Petition Disposed of
JUDGMENT
Dinesh Mehta, J. - The writ petition at hand has been preferred against the order dated 03.01.2019, passed by the learned Board of Revenue, Ajmer (hereinafter referred to as "the Board"), vide which revision petition filed by the petitioner under Section 230 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1955"), has been dismissed, inter alia, observing that the appeal before the Revenue Appellate Authority was not maintainable.
2. The facts appertain to the present writ petition are that the petitioner filed a suit for declaration under Section 88 of the Act of 1955, with an assertion that the disputed property is an ancestral property and he be declared entitled for 1/3 share in such property.
3. An ad-interim injunction was granted in petitioner's favour on 17.09.2018, which was subsequently vacated by the Assistant Collector- Sub-Divisional Officer, vide order dated 20.09.2018 in pursuance of an application, which was filed by the present respondent No.8 who contended that petitioner's father had sold the subject land to him. It was further asserted that the property in question was self acquired property of petitioner's father Shri Gugan Ram (respondent No.4 herein).
4. Challenging the order dated 20.09.2018, the petitioner preferred an appeal under Section 225 of the Act before the Revenue Appellate Authority, alongwith stay application. The Revenue Appellate Authority rejected the stay application filed by the petitioner vide its order dated 24.09.2018.
5. The aforesaid order dated 24.09.2018, passed by the Revenue Appellate Authority was challenged by the petitioner before the Board of Revenue by way of filing a revision petition. The same was dismissed by the Board vide impugned order dated 03.01.2019, holding that petitioner's appeal under Section 225 of the Act of 1955, preferred against an interlocutory order was not maintainable.
6. The petitioner has approached this Court while challenging the order dated 03.01.2019, passed by learned Board of Revenue so also the order dated 24.09.2018, passed by the learned Revenue Appellate Authority.
7. Mr. Moti Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner contended that an ad-interim injunction granted in petitioner's favour has been vacated by the Trial Court pursuant to the application filed by the respondent No.8, who was admittedly not a party to the proceedings. Challenging the order passed by the Courts below, he contended that the learned Trial Court was thus not justified in vacating the ad-interim order, granted in petitioner's favour and the Courts below in affirming such illegal order.
8. It was further argued that the learned Board of Revenue has erred in rejecting petitioner's revision petition on the ground that his appeal was not maintainable, having been filed against the interlocutory order dated 17.09.2018. In support of his contention, learned counsel cited judgment of this Court in Khema Ram Vs. State of Rajasthan and Ors.,2014 1 DNJ 35 (Raj) .
9. Mr. Rakesh Matoria, learned counsel appearing for the respondent No.8 - Caveator submitted that the respondent No.8 is a bonafide purchaser of the land, which has been sold by none other than petitioner's father Gugan Ram that the contentious land was his self acquired property. The petitioner did not have any case worth grant of injunction in his favour, hence the Courts below have committed no error of law, he added.
10. Be that is it may, without going into the merit of the rival contentions, this Court is of the opinion that the Board of Revenue has erred in rejecting petitioner's revision petition on the count that petitioner's appeal before the Revenue Appellate Authority was not maintainable, as the same had been preferred against an interlocutory order dated 20.09.2018. Having regard to judgment of Court in Khema Ram (supra), this Court is of the considered opinion that the view taken by the Board of Revenue was erroneous.
11. However, remanding the matter to the Board of Revenue an
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