2018 Supreme(Raj) 1957
IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
Dr. Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J.
Manmal Oswal - Appellant
Versus
Ravindra Kumar Oswal - Respondent
Civil Writ No. 6489 of 2018
Decided On : 25-07-2018
Mr. Kuldeep Purohit, Dr. Akshaya Shukla, Advocates, for the Appellant s; Mr. Vishal Sharma, Advocate, for the Respondents
Headnote:
Constitution of India,1950 - Article 226 & 227 – Civil Procedure Code,1908 - Section 151 - Order 18, Rule 17 - Cross-examination - Production of certain documents - Respondent-plaintiff filed a suit for mandatory and perpetual injunction and damages against petitioners defendants - On petitioner-defendant submitted his affidavit in chief examination and along with said affidavit a blue print map was also submitted with form which was made by DW 4 Vail - On respondent-plaintiff filed an application under Order read with section 151 CPC claiming that petitioner-defendant had produced blue print map along with his affidavit and further stated that said map was not placed on record and therefore same has not been part of affidavit – However court trial Court vide order has rejected application under Order 19 read with section 151 Civil Procedure Code filed by respondent plaintiff – Held, This Court is of opinion that map in question was produced on and thereafter respondent-plaintiff kept on lingering matter for very many dates on limited count of producing rebuttal evidence but did not do any rebuttal - After a long time court below closed the rebuttal evidence - However in interest of justice this Court allowed petitioner to cross-examine so as to enable respondent-plaintiff to avail opportunity of rebutting affidavit and map produced on - Although application of respondent-plaintiff for rebutting map produced on has been allowed but even after giving very many number of opportunities for rebuttal respondent-plaintiff failed to make any rebuttal - Writ Petition is allowed
JUDGMENT
Pushpendra Singh Bhati, J. - The petitioner has preferred this writ petition under Article 226 & 227 of the Constitution of India claiming the following reliefs:
"1. An appropriate writ direction or order be issued quashing the order dated 19.04.2018 Annex.21) passed by the learned Civil Judge Merta, Dist. Nagaur, and the application filed by the respondent-plaintiff under section 151 CPC may kindly be dismissed.
2. Any other order or direction, which this Hon'ble Court deemed just and proper be passed in favour of the petitioner."
2. Brief facts of this case, as noticed by this Court, are that the respondent-plaintiff filed a suit for mandatory and perpetual injunction and damages against the petitioners defendants. On 17.09.2015 the petitioner-defendant No.1 submitted his affidavit in chief examination, and along with the said affidavit a blue print map was also submitted with form No.3, which was made by the DW 4 Gajdhar Abdul Vail.
3. On 14.07.2016, the respondent-plaintiff filed an application under Order 19 read with section 151 CPC claiming that the petitioner-defendant No.1 had produced the blue print map along with his affidavit and further stated that the said map was not placed on record, and therefore, the same has not been the part of the affidavit. However, the learned court trial Court vide order dated 04.10.2016 has rejected the application under Order 19 read with section 151 CPC filed by the respondent plaintiff. While passing the said order dated 04.10.2016, the learned court below observed that the blue print map was presented to clarify the factual situation of the subject matter and apart from this, no substantial evidence was placed regarding the blue print map in question.
The evidence of the defendant was closed by the learned trial court on 22.03.2017 and respondent-plaintiff sought time for rebuttal evidence on which the matter was posted on 21.04.2017 and then on 26.04.2017 for the same purpose. However, no rebuttal was produced by the respondent-plaintiff and the respondent-plaintiff filed an application under Order 26, Rule 9 for appointment of a Commissioner. The said application was rejected with cost of Rs. 500/- but simultaneously last opportunity for rebuttal was granted by the learned trial Court on 10.05.2017.
4. On 18.05.2017 the respondent-plaintiff filed an affidavit in his chief examination and on filing of such affidavit, last opportunity was granted for cross-examination of the respondent and the matter was fixed for 13.07.2017 for the rebuttal evidence of respondent-plaintiff. However, on 13.07.2017, the respondent plaintiff again sought time for producing the rebuttal evidence. The learned trial court again granted time to the respondent plaintiff on 13.07.2017 for rebuttal evidence, only to the extent of the issue No.3 and the matter was posted for 17.08.2017. The further time was sought for the rebuttal evidence and the learned trial court, in the interest of justice, granted last opportunity to the respondent-plaintiff i.e. 24.08.2017.
5. On 14.08.2017, the respondent-plaintiff filed an application under Order 7, Rule 14(3) of CPC for production of certain documents and the said application was allowed with cost of Rs. 1,000/- and the matter was again kept for rebuttal evidence. The learned trial court has closed the rebuttal evidence of the respondent-plaintiff on 12.10.2017. The respondent-plaintiff meanwhile filed an application under Order 18, Rule 17 of CPC for cross-examination of DW-4 Gajdhar Abdul Vakil on the ground that the hindi typed copy of Ex.A/3 clarifies the measurements of the property and the measurement shown by DW-4 Gajdhar Abdul Vail in the map dated 21.07.2015 was contradictory. The said application was rejected by the learned court below vide order dated 10.01.2018. The aforesaid order dated 10.01.2018 was challenged by the respondent-plaintiff by way of filing SB Civil Writ Petition No.2135/2018 before this Hon'ble Court, wherein vide order dated 2