IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
PRADEEP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J.
Most. Lilawati Devi - Petitioner
Versus
Smt. Pratima Devi & Ors. - Respondents
C.M.P. No. 410 of 2023
Decided On : 10-08-2023
Constitution of India, 1950 – Article 227 – Civil Procedure Code, 1908 – Order 7 Rule 11(d) – Section 96 Order 41 – Original Suit – Suit for cancellation of sale deed – Sale deed – For Fresh Filing – Held, Admittedly no appeal against impugned order as per provision of Section 96 read with order 41 of CPC has been preferred – It is submitted by learned counsel for petitioner that learned court below has wrongly recorded finding that suit for cancellation of sale deed was time barred without taking into notice entire averments of plaint and reliefs sought for Para-11 of plaint is concerned about execution of sale deed due to fraud and petitioner came to know about said fraud later and filed original suit – Hence, impugned order is fit to be set aside – Disposed off.
JUDGMENT :
The case is listed under the heading “For Fresh Filing”.
2. Heard, learned counsel for the plaintiffs/petitioners.
3. Instant petition under Article 227 of Constitution of India is directed against the order dated 28.02.2023 passed by Sri Satish Kumar Munda, Civil Judge(Jr. Div.) I, Palamau at Daltonganj passed in Original Suit No.40 of 2023 (Annexure-3) whereby and whereunder, learned Civil Judge (Jr. Div.) has rejected the plaint of the petitioner under order 7, Rule 11(d) of CPC.
4. The case of plaintiff/petitioner is that Suit Plot No.585 of Khat No.40 total area 1.04 acre of village Sudana, P.S. Daltonganj, District Palamau was recorded in last cadastral survey and settlement operaton in the name of three brothers namely Hira Ojha, Sheodhyan Ojha and Jagdish Ojah along with others land. It is alleged that through amicable partition amongst them said land allotted exclusively in the share of Jadish Ojha. It is alleged that Jagdish Ojah died in the year 1947 living behind two widows namely Suchit Kuer and Rukmini Kuer although Suchit Kuer died issueless whereas Rukmini Kuer died in 1961 leaving behind a daughter Jasmati Kuer who succeeded in the interest of her mohtere and her name has been mutated in respect of said land through mutation Case No.330 of 1960/61.
It is alleged that Jasmati has executed a registered sale deed on 07.07.1995 for an area 22.1/2 decimals out of said plot No.585 of Khata No.40 which was objected by other co-brothers of Jagdish Ojha claiming their share, hence, defendant Nos.1 and 2 again approached to Jasmati to execute another sale deed in respect of same plot of land and same are with verbal assurance, if sale deed of the year 1995 is found valid in civil suit they will return the land under second sale deed, accordingly, Jasmati executed another Sale Deed No.5497 dated 26.05.1997 without receiving any consideration money.
It is further alleged that defendant No.1 Pratima Devi filed Title Suit No.65 of 1998 which was decreed over scheduled A land, the said land covers under sale deed of the year 1995. In the judgment dated 29.06.2013 passed by learned Civil Judge-I, Palamau at Daltonganj. It is further alleged that after passing judgment and decree in the aforesaid title suit, the plaintiff being heir of Jasmati have right, title and interest over the property and approached to defendant Nos.1 and 2 to execute the sale deed in her favour as per assurance given at the time of execution of sale deed dated 26.05.1997 for return of the land but the defendants refused to return the land. Hence present suit was instituted.
5. Learned trial court while hearing Title Suit No.40 of 2023 on point of admission, rejected the same purportedly passing the order under order 7 Rule 11(d) of CPC under wrong appreciation of facts. Admittedly no appeal against the impugned order as per provision of Section 96 read with order 41 of CPC has been preferred.
6. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that learned court below has wrongly recorded the finding that the suit for cancellation of the sale deed was time barred without taking into notice the entire averments of plaint and reliefs sought for Para-11 of the plaint is concerned about execution of sale deed due to fraud and petitioner came to know about the said fraud later and filed the original suit. Hence, impugned order is fit to be set aside.
7. At this juncture, the relevant provision is required to be quoted order 7 rule 11 of CPC-the plaint shall be rejected in the following cases:-
(b) where the relief claimed is under-valued, and the plaintiff, on being required by the Court to so correct the valuation within a time to be fixed by the Court, fails to do so;
(c) where the relief claimed is properly valued, but the plaint is written upon paper insufficiently stamped, and the plaintiff, on being required by the Court to supply the requisite stamp-paper within a time to be fixed by the Court, fa
The civil court has jurisdiction to hear a suit for cancellation of a sale deed relating to converted land, even if the sale deed was executed before the conversion.
A subsequent petition for amendment is barred by res-judicata if a similar petition was previously dismissed without challenge.
The sufficiency of evidence for ownership claims is determined at trial, not during a dismissal application under Order VII Rule 11 of the CPC.
The main legal point established in the judgment is the conclusive nature of the determination between the parties and the decree-holder under Order XXI Rule 97 of CPC, and the application of this pr....
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