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2022 Supreme(Raj) 872

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR
Sudesh Bansal, J.
Raj Kumar Atri S/o Shri Pyare Lal Atri and ors. - Petitioners
Versus
Raghuveer Singh S/o Shri Pyare Lal Atri and ors. – Respondents
S.B. Civil Revision Petition No. 202, 203 of 2022
Decided On : 10-10-2022

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Abhinav Sharma
For the Respondent:Mr. Rajendra Prasad, Sr. Advocate assisted by Mr. Gautam Bhadadra

The main legal point established in the judgment is that the applications filed by the petitioners were misconceived and misdirected, and that the petitioners lacked locus standi to raise objections. The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to file fresh civil suits for their grievances.

Headnote:

Revision Petitions - Challenge to Orders under Section 115 of Code of Civil Procedure - Specific Performance of Agreements - Execution of Sale Deeds - Fraud Allegations - Dismissal of Applications under Order 21 Rule 90 CPC - Sale Deeds Executed in Execution of Decree for Specific Performance - Misconceived Applications - No Breach of Procedure - Lack of Locus Standi - Dismissal of Petitions

Fact of the Case:

The respondent filed two separate civil suits for specific performance of agreements dated 30.8.1991. The suits were decreed in favor of the respondent. Subsequently, the respondent proceeded for execution of the judgments and submitted applications under Order 21 Rule 34 CPC to get execution of the sale deeds. The respondent submitted draft sale deeds before the Executing Court and the sale deeds were executed and registered in execution of the decrees. The petitioners, who were not parties to the original agreements or the suits, filed separate applications under Section 151 CPC and Order 21 Rule 90 CPC, seeking to declare the registered sale deeds as null and void, alleging fraud and breach of procedure. The Executing Court dismissed both applications, leading to the filing of revision petitions.

Finding of the Court:

The Court found that the applications filed by the petitioners were misconceived and misdirected as they sought to challenge the execution of sale deeds in a manner not covered within the scope of Order 21 Rule 90 CPC. The Court also observed that the petitioners lacked locus standi to raise objections and that their objections were not amenable within the scope of Section 47 CPC. The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to file fresh civil suits for their grievances.

Issues: The issues revolved around the validity of the applications filed by the petitioners under Section 151 CPC and Order 21 Rule 90 CPC, the breach of procedure in executing the sale deeds, and the locus standi of the petitioners to raise objections.

Ratio Decidendi: The Court held that the applications filed by the petitioners were misconceived and misdirected, and that the petitioners lacked locus standi to raise objections. The Court also observed that the objections raised by the petitioners were not amenable within the scope of Section 47 CPC. The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to file fresh civil suits for their grievances.

Final Decision: The Court dismissed both revision petitions, finding that the applications filed by the petitioners were misconceived and misdirected, and that the petitioners lacked locus standi to raise objections. The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to file fresh civil suits for their grievances.

ORDER :

1. By way of these two revision petitions, preferred under Section 115 of Code of Civil Procedure, petitioners have challenged the impugned Orders dated 25.08.2022, passed in Civil Misc. Applications No.18/2022 & 17/2022 by the Court of Additional District Judge No.1, Bundi (Rajasthan), dismissing their two separate applications filed under Order 21 Rule 90 CPC. Since the points involved in both revision petitions are substantially similar and petitioners & respondents No.1 are same parties, therefore, with consent of counsel for both parties, both petitions have been heard together and would stand decided by this common Order. Respondent No.1-plaintiff-decree holder has put in appearance as caveator.

2. Heard learned counsel for both parties, perused the impugned orders and material placed before this Court.

3. The relevant facts for deciding these petitions, in nut shell, are that respondent No.1-plaintiff instituted two separate civil suits for specific performance of two agreements dated 30.8.1991 against other respondents No.2 & 3. Both agreements were executed solely in favour of respondent No.1-plaintiff. In civil suit No.23/2000, plaintiff averred in para Nos. 2, 5 & 6 of the plaint that defendants agreed to sale their 2/3 share in agricultural lands of khasra No.63, at Village Ren, Tehsil Hindoli, District Bundi, to plaintiff and other 8 persons, however, agreement has been executed in name of plaintiff alone and later on, after payment of substantive amount against agreed sale consideration, in furtherance to the agreement to sale dated 30.8.1991, defendants delivered possession of 278 Bighas agricultural land to plaintiff on 31.1.1992 and since then plaintiff and other eight persons, named in schedule ‘B’ appended with plaint have been in continuous cultivatory possession. In the Schedule ‘B’, appended with plaint, names of nine persons including plaintiff- Raghuveer Singh and both petitioners Raj Kumar and Vinod Kumar are mentioned. It was averred that land was agreed to be purchased jointly by plaintiff and other eight persons. Plaintiff averred in the plaint that, in pursuance of agreement in question, sale deed(s) was/ were to be executed and registered in the name of plaintiff and other eight persons jointly or severally according to instructions of plaintiff and prayer was made in the plaint in the similar tune. This civil suit was decreed in favour of respondent No.1-plaintiff vide judgment dated 16.1.2004 in the following terms:

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4. In Civil Suit No.22/2000, plaintiff averred that defendant No.1 through his power of attorney holder defendant No.2, agreed to sale his Khatedari land of 46 Bighas 19 Biswas at village Ren, Tehsil Hindoli, District Bundi to plaintiff and executed agreement dated 30.8.1991, after receiving part of sale consideration and later, on payment of substantive sale consideration, possession of land was delivered to plaintiff on 31.01.1992, which is in continuous possession of plaintiff. In this suit, there is no reference of persons other than plaintiff in whose favour sale deed was to be executed, however, in the Court statements of plaintiff Raghuveer Singh (Pw.1), recorded on

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