IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
P.B.BALAJI
K.LOGESHKUMAR – Appellant
Versus
N. Ravichandran (Died) – Respondent
ORDER :
P.B. BALAJI, J.
1. The revision petitioner is the defendant in suit for specific performance in O.S. No.75 of 2013 on the file of the learned II Additional District and Sessions Court, Thiruppur. The revision petitioner challenges the exparte decree passed in the said suit on 26.09.2013, invoking the extraordinary revisional powers available in this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.
2. I have heard Mr.N.Manoharan, learned counsel for the revision petitioner and Mr.P.Valliappan, learned Senior Counsel for Mr.K.S.Karthik Raja. learned counsel for the respondents 2 and 3 and Mr.V.P.Senguttuvel, learned Senior Counsel for Mr.K.R.Nishanth, learned counsel for the respondents 4 and 5. The first respondent in the revision is no more and his heirs have already been impleaded, pending the revision.
3. Mr.N.Manoharan, learned counsel for the revision petitioner inviting my attention to the judgment passed in O.S. No.75 of 2013 would submit that the Trial Court has not followed the mandate of the Order XX, Rule 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, (in short 'CPC') and moreso, the suit being one for specific performance, the Trial Court ought to have given findings w
The court emphasized that a petitioner must act with diligence and clean hands when invoking Article 227, especially when challenging an ex-parte decree after an unreasonable delay.
The importance of a valid and reasoned judgment in compliance with procedural requirements, considering the substantial rights of the parties and the hardship caused to the plaintiff due to the delay....
The High Court should not entertain a revision petition under Article 227 against an ex-parte judgment and decree when a specific remedy of appeal is available under the Code of Civil Procedure itsel....
The main legal point established in the judgment is that when a statutory alternative remedy by way of an appeal is available to the aggrieved party, a civil revision petition under Article 227 of th....
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