IN THE HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
Arun Bhansali, J.
Maniram Chimpa and Ors. - Appellants
Vs.
Mamkori Chimpa and Ors. - Respondent
S.B. Civil Revision Petition No. 72 of 2019
Decided On : 09-03-2021
Civil Procedural Code, 1908 - Order VII, Rule 11 - Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 - Section 207 - Revision petition - Suit seeking cancellation of sale deed - Application was contested by respondents and the trial court after hearing the parties, came to the conclusion that the suit seeking cancellation of sale deed as void did not fall within the 3rd Schedule of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act and only civil court has the jurisdiction – Held, declaration has been sought in the plaint seeking cancellation of sale deed to the extent of share of the plaintiff on account of the fact that the suit property being ancestral joint Hindu property the transfer was made without any reason, basis or necessity - judgment in the case of Pyarelal (supra) is concerned, the said judgment only dealt with a case where the allegations made in the plaint, made out a case of the document being void whereon it was laid down by Hon'ble Supreme Court that for seeking a relief qua the agricultural land, where the document is void, a prior declaration is required for maintaining the suit. The said judgment in the case of Pyarelal (supra) has no application to the facts of the present case - Revision petition dismissed.
JUDGMENT :
Arun Bhansali, J.
1. This revision petition is directed against the order dated 16.04.2019 passed by the trial court, whereby the application filed by the petitioners under Order VII, Rule 11 CPC, has been rejected.
2. The application under Order VII, Rule 11 CPC was filed, inter alia, on the ground that the suit was barred under provisions of Section 207 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 ('the Rajasthan Tenancy Act'), inasmuch as, the suit land was an agriculture land.
3. The application was contested by the respondents and the trial court after hearing the parties, came to the conclusion that the suit seeking cancellation of sale deed as void did not fall within the 3rd Schedule of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act and only civil court has the jurisdiction.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners made submissions that the trial court was not justified in rejecting the application by making the said observations as it is well settled that in case the subject matter of the suit is an agriculture land, merely because a sale deed has been executed, it is not necessary that the suit must be filed before the civil court. Once a party gets a declaration from the revenue court and the sale is found to be void, the declaration can be given by the revenue court as well.
5. Reliance was placed on judgment in the case of Pyarelal vs. Shubhendra Pilania, (2019) 3 SCC 692.
6. Learned counsel for the respondents opposed the submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioners. It was submitted that the specific case of the respondents-plaintiffs is that the property in question is joint family property and the transfer was made without there being any power in this regard and, therefore, the transaction was voidable and in view of judgment of this Court in Hasti Cement Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. vs. Sandeep Charan & Ors., 2018 (2) DNJ (Raj.) 421, the said transaction was voidable only and once the transaction was voidable, the suit lies before the civil court only.
7. Reliance was placed on judgment in Mahendra Kumar & Ors. vs. Smt. Maya Devi & Ors.: S.B. Civil Revision Petition No. 182/2017, decided on 11.02.2021.
8. I have considered the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties and have perused the material available on record. The copy of the plaint filed alongwith the revision petition clearly indicates the case of the defendants-petitioners as under:-
The said nature averments and the implication of such averments have been considered by this Court in the case of Hasti Cement (supra), wherein it was laid down as under:-
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