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1994 Supreme(Ori) 150

High Court Of Orissa
A. K. PADHI
COLLECTOR, BALASORE - Appellant
Versus
SUKADEV SAMAL - Respondent
CIV. REVN.  13  Of  1994
Decided On : 09/23/1994

Advocates Appeared:
A.K.Rathore, A.S.Naidu, P.K.MOHAPATRA, P.MOHANTY, S.S.RAO

The valuation of a Civil Revision challenging an order passed in an execution proceeding is the same as the valuation of the original suit.

Headnote:

CIVIL REVISION - JURISDICTION - VALUATION - EXECUTION PROCEEDING - CONTINUATION OF SUIT - VALUATION OF CIVIL REVISION CHALLENGING ORDER IN EXECUTION PROCEEDING - SAME AS VALUATION OF ORIGINAL SUIT - ORISSA AMENDMENT TO SECTION 115, C. P. C. - REVISION TO BE FILED BEFORE DISTRICT COURT.

Fact of the Case:

Petitioners, as judgment-debtors, challenged an order passed in Execution Case No. 7 of 1991, arising out of a suit (O. S. No. 14 of 1986-I) where the decree-holders were granted a mandatory injunction to remove constructions made by the petitioners on their land. The executing Court directed the petitioners to deposit Rs. 1,00,000/- towards the cost of demolition of the construction.

Finding of the Court:

The Court held that the valuation of a Civil Revision challenging an order passed in an execution proceeding is the same as the valuation of the original suit. The Court reasoned that execution of a decree is a continuation of the suit and that the valuation of an execution proceeding can only be the valuation of the suit in which a decree has been passed.

Issues: 1. Whether the valuation of a Civil Revision challenging an order passed in an execution proceeding is the same as the valuation of the original suit? 2. Whether the Civil Revision was maintainable in the High Court or should have been filed before the District Court?

Ratio Decidendi: The Court relied on the Orissa Amendment to Section 115, C. P. C., which limits the High Court's revisional jurisdiction to cases arising out of original suits or other proceedings of the value of Rs. 1,00,000/- or above. The Court also relied on the principle that execution of a decree is a continuation of the suit and that the valuation of an execution proceeding can only be the valuation of the suit in which a decree has been passed.

Final Decision: The Court held that the Civil Revision was not maintainable in the High Court and should have been filed before the District Court. The Court directed the petitioners to return the memorandum of the revision along with the impugned order and present the same before the appropriate forum within eight weeks.

A. K. PADHI, J.


( 1 ) JUDGMENT-DEBTORS of Q. S. No. 14 of 1986-I are the petitioners. Civil Revision has been filed challenging the order dated 5-11-1993 arising out of Execution Case No. 7 of 1991.

( 2 ) OPPOSITE parties as plaintiffs filed the suit praying for permanent injunction and for the direction not to interfere with their possession and with further prayer for mandatory injunction and removal of the constructions made by the defendants over their land and for other ancillary reliefs arraying the present petitioners who are Collectors, Balasore and others as defendants. In the aforesaid suit, the plaintiffs alleged that defendants had executed the work of construction of escape on the suit land of which plaintiffs were the owners. Since without any manner of right, title and interest defendants were trying to interfere in the right, title and interest of the plaintiffs permanent injunction be granted directing them not to interfere with in the possession of the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also had prayed for demolition of constructions made over their plot.

( 3 ) DEFENDANTS filed their written statement in the suit disputing the allegations and contended that no part of the escape was constructed on plot No. 106 of mouza-Korakada which was the disputed plot. It was further pleaded that the escape as a bi-pass drainage from the river Ganjuti situates in village Kanjiapal and Sukadevpur from the time of British regime. A portion of the old structure was of the escape damaged for which reconstruction of the escape was taken up on the site on which it was existing and no part of the escape was constructed on plot No. 106 as claimed by the plaintiffs.

( 4 ) THE plaintiff's suit was decreed and in the ordering portion of the decree it was directed: -". . . . . . . . . . The defendants are hereby directed to remove construction within one month from today if constructed on M. S. Plot No. 105 belonging to the plaintiffs and pro forma defendants failing which the plaintiffs and pro forma defendants are at liberty to pray Court for issuing a mandatory injunction directing the contesting defendants to demolish any construction made on M. S. Plot No. 106. The contesting defendants are further restrained permanently from coming upon the suit plot No. 106 belonging to the plaintiffs and pro forma defendants Nos. 6 to 33 and from creating any sort of disturbance whatsoever thereon. "the decree passed in Q. S. No. 14 of 1986-I has become final. Thereafter the plaintiffs-Decree-holders filed Execution Case No. 7 of 1991 for execution of the mandatory injunction and thereafter filed an application under Rule 22 of Order 21, C. P. C. By order dated 5-11-1993 the executing Court directed as follows: -". . . . . . . . . THEREFORE, considering the D. Hr. proving the construction of escape on M. S. Plot No. 106 under M. S. Khata No. 199/1 of Mouza Korkoda, is entitled to demolish the said escape. The estimated costs for the same as under the petition of D. Hr. being of a total sum of Rs. 3,77,500/- the J. Drs. therefore, directed to deposit a sum of Rs. 1,00,000/ (Rupees one lakh only) towards the cost of the demolition of the construction of the escape made over plot No. 106 within three months hence, to enable the D. Hr. to furnish voucher for onward direction to the J. Drs. to pay the rest of the amount spent for the same; the depositing of the said Rs. 1,00,000/- by the Jr. Drs. is a condition precedent to the D. Hrs. ' furnishing vouchers. In case of failure to deposit a sum of Rs. 1,00,000/- by the J. Drs. , the accounts of J. Dr. No. 2, the Executive Engineer, Jaipur Irrigation, Jaipur, Cuttack at State Bank of India, Jaipur, shall remain attached until realisation of the cost. "challenging this portion of the order passed in Execution Case No. 7 of 1991, the defendant-J. Drs. have filed this Civil Revision on various grounds such as jurisdiction of the Court to pass such an order under Rule 32 of Order 21, C. P. C.

( 5 ) MR. Naidu, a








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