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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
P.B.BALAJI
R.Santhanam – Appellant
Versus
Official Trustee of Tamil Nadu, Represented by the Trust Estate of M.M.Charities – Respondent
ORDER :
P.B. Balaji, J.
The revision petitioners are judgment debtors. The 1st respondent had filed an suit for ejectment against the tenants occupying the property belonging to the first respondent. Pending the suit, an application was taken out by the tenants under Section 9 of the City Tenants Protection Act, 1921 for purchasing the land belonging to the charities. The said application was allowed by the Trial Court. However, on the same day when the Section 9 application was allowed, the suit came to be dismissed.
2. A Second appeal preferred by the judgment debtors came to be dismissed in S.A.No. 925 of 2012, by a judgment and decree dated 22.08.2023. E.P.No.1781 of 2012 was filed for recovery of vacant possession from the judgment debtors under Order 21 Rule 35 of Civil Procedure Code. Pending the Execution Petition, the revision petitioners filed a memo before the Executing Court bringing it to the notice of the Court as well as the decree holders that the 1st respondent, 2nd respondent as well as 5th respondent had died on 15.01.2021, 28.09.2012 and 15.02.2015 respectively. The matter came up before the Executing Court on 10.07.2025, the learned counsel for the revision petiti
Legal representatives of deceased judgment debtors must be impleaded in execution proceedings as prescribed by Section 50 of the Civil Procedure Code, mandating compliance with prior court opinions.
Legal heirs of a deceased decree holder can be impleaded in execution proceedings at any time; execution petitions do not abate upon the death of the decree holder.
Procedural rules under the CPC specify that execution proceedings are not abated by the death of a judgment-debtor, allowing legal representatives to enforce decrees.
The court emphasized the limited grounds on which a decree is unexecutable and highlighted that the right of the Decree Holder to obtain relief is determined in accordance with the terms of the decre....
Subsequent purchasers possess the legal right to execute possession decrees under CPC without needing an assignment of the decree.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that a decree obtained against a dead person without impleading their legal representatives is a nullity and cannot be executed.
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