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2018 Supreme(HP) 184

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA
SURESHWAR THAKUR, J.
Paras Ram - Petitioner
Versus
Om Parkash and another - Respondents
CMPMO No. 367 of 2017
Decided On : 29-03-2018

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Ramakant Sharma, Advocate.
For the Respondents:Mr. Aman Deep Sharma, Advocate.

The central legal point established in the judgment is that the court has a duty to ensure efficacious execution of a decree, and the provisions of Order 26 Rule 9 CPC can be utilized for relevant ascertainments.

Headnote:

Order 26 Rule 9 CPC - Execution of Decree - Local Commissioner Appointment - [Khasra No. 5] - [Order 26 Rule 9 CPC] - The court allowed the appeal and quashed the impugned order, directing the trial court to appoint a Local Commissioner to ascertain whether willful disobedience of the decree of permanent prohibitory injunction had occurred.

Fact of the Case:

The plaintiff sought appointment of a Local Commissioner under Order 26 Rule 9 CPC to ascertain willful disobedience of a decree for permanent prohibitory injunction during execution proceedings. The executing court declined relief, leading to the appeal.

Finding of the Court:

The court found that the executing court had erred in declining relief based on the duty of the petitioner to prove violations, as the provisions of Order 26 Rule 9 CPC were available for the court to make relevant ascertainments.

Issues: The issues revolved around the duty of the court to ensure efficacious execution of the decree and the availability of provisions under Order 26 Rule 9 CPC for relevant ascertainments.

Ratio Decidendi: The court held that it was not only the duty of the parties but also the duty of the court to ensure efficacious execution of the decree, especially when adduction of best documentary evidence would secure a conclusive binding verdict.

Final Decision: The impugned order was quashed and set aside, and the trial court was directed to appoint a Local Commissioner to visit the relevant site for making the necessary ascertainments.

JUDGMENT :

SURESHWAR THAKUR, J.

1. A conclusive binding executable decree vis-à-vis suit Khasra No. 5, was rendered under Ext. A-1, whereupon the defendants, were, permanently restrained from changing the nature of the suit land, and, from raising any construction thereon, till, dismemberment of the undivided estate, occurs by metes and bounds. The afore-referred decree for permanent prohibitory injunction, was, put to execution by the plaintiff-Decree Holder. However, during pendency of the apposite execution petition bearing No. 3 of 2009, the plaintiff instituted, therebefore, an application, cast under the provisions of Order 26 Rule 9 CPC, (a) wherein he sought appointment of a Local Commissioner, for holding the suit land to demarcation, for ascertaining whether willful disobedience, vis-à-vis the mandate, of a conclusive binding decree of permanent prohibitory injunction, hence emanated. The learned Executing Court, proceeded to, under the impugned order, decline, relief to the plaintiff/Decree Holder, hence the latter is aggrieved therefrom, hence, has through the instant appeal, made a concert to beget its reversal.

2. The short reason, which is assigned by the learned Executing Court, for declining relief to the plaintiff/Decree Holder, is comprised in the factum, of, a petition, cast under Order 21 Rule 32 CPC, (a) holding penal consequence, and, hence the assistance of the Court, as concerted, by the Decree Holder, for proving infringements, if any by the JD, vis-à-vis the mandate of a conclusive binding decree, of permanent prohibitory injunction, rather being unavailable to him b) especially it being not the duty of the Court, to collect evidence on behalf of any party to the lis, rather, it being incumbent upon the petitioner, to prove purported violations, by the Judgment Debtor, vis-à-vis the conclusive binding decree, rendered by the Civil Court. The aforesaid reasons’ assigned by the learned Executing Court are perse flimsy a) given the learned Executing Court remaining unmindful, to factum of the provisions of Order 26 Rule 9 CPC, being available to the Court concerned, for theirs being recoursed, conspicuously for hence making the relevant ascertainments, b) also whereupon alone the Courts would be sufficiently satisfied qua the Judgment Debtor, hence infringing or not infringing the mandate, of the apposite decree. Consequently, if the mandate of order 26 Rule 9 CPC, is assuredly meant, for Courts concerned, for theirs taking recourse thereto, (c) thereupon the apposite recourse(s) as aspired by the Decree Holder, could not be throttled, merely, on the perse flimsy reason, of it, being rather incumbent upon the petitioners/Decree Holders, to prove the apposite violation(s), (C) especially when the best evidence for validating or invalidating the espousal(s) of the decree holder, would, emanate, only, upon the Local Commissioner concerned purveying its report, (d) rather than from the oral testification(s) rendered by the Decree Holder or by his witness(es).

3. Be that as it may, the learned Executing Court, has by assigning the aforesaid reasons, meted irreverence vis-à-vis the mandate of Order 29 Rule 6 CPC, also has proceeded to relegate, into the realm of redundancy, the innate nuance, of the provisions borne in Order 26 Rule 9 CPC, hence, has abandoned its duty, to ensure efficacious execution, of the conclusive decree for permanent prohibitory injunction, pronounced vis-à-vis the suit land, (a) significantly also when the joint estate, in respect whereof, the apposite decree is pronounced, yet remains unpartitioned by metes and bounds, nor when hence the part thereof, qua wherewith the alleged infringement has purportedly occurred, is also hence not demonstrated, upon its partition, to hence stand allotted to the Judgment Debtor, (f) thereupon dehors the penal consequence(s) ensuing, from, proven infringements, being made by the Judgment Debtor, vis-à-vis the mandate of the decree, it was not befitting,


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