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1989 Supreme(Ori) 132

High Court Of Orissa
G. B. PATTANAIK
PARAMANANDA PANDA - Appellant
Versus
KRUSHNA CHANDRA PANDA - Respondent
CIV. REVN.  781  Of  1985
Decided On : 09/07/1989

Advocates Appeared:
B.K.PAL, S.Mishra

O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. is an extraordinary power and should be granted only when an extraordinary case is made out.

Headnote:

O. 21, R. 29, CIVIL P. C. - STAY OF EXECUTION PENDING SUIT BETWEEN DECREE-HOLDER AND JUDGMENT-DEBTOR - APPLICABILITY - EXTRAORDINARY CASE NOT MADE OUT - STAY OF FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN EXECUTION CASE NOT JUSTIFIED.

Fact of the Case:

Plaintiff filed a suit for partition of ancestral property and declaration that a decree in an earlier suit did not bind him, alleging that he was excluded from the suit and denied his due share. He also filed an application for stay of execution of the decree in the earlier suit, which was rejected by the trial court.

Finding of the Court:

The court held that the plaintiff was not a judgment-debtor in the earlier suit and, therefore, O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. was not applicable. It also held that the plaintiff had not made out an extraordinary case to justify a stay of the execution proceedings under S. 151, Civil P. C.

Issues: Whether O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. is applicable to a case where the plaintiff is not a judgment-debtor in the earlier suit.

Ratio Decidendi: O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. is an extraordinary power and should be granted only when an extraordinary case is made out. In the present case, the plaintiff had not made out an extraordinary case to justify a stay of the execution proceedings. Therefore, the trial court was justified in rejecting the plaintiff's application for stay.

Final Decision: The revision petition was dismissed.

G. B. PATNAIK, J.

( 1 ) PLAINTIFF is the petitioner and being aggrieved by the order dt. 19-10-1985 passed by the Subordinate Judge, Jajpur, refusing the plaintiffs prayer to stay the further proceedings of Execution Case No. 17 of 1984 has filed the revision.

( 2 ) THE plaintiff filed the suit (T. S. 140 of 1985) with the prayer that Schedule-B of the plaint schedule property be partitioned and for a declaration that the decree in Title Suit No. 16 of 1979 does not bind the plaintiff, on the allegation that defendant No. 11, Madan Mohan Panda had filed the earlier Title Suit No. 16 of 1979 in the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Jajpur, wherein the plaintiff's father was a party and obtained a decree therein by intentionally excluding the plaintiff from the suit and by exercising undue influence on his father and in the process the plaintiff was denied of his due share in the ancestral property. For course of the said suit, the plaintiff also filed in application for stay of execution case. No. 17 of 1984. Though the said application was styled to be an application under S. 94 Civil P. C. but essentially the same is one under O. 21, R. 29 of the Civil P. C. The learned Subordinate Judge came to the conclusion that the ratio indicated in the case of Judhistir v. Surendra, AIR 1969 Orissa, 238, had full application to the facts and circumstances of the present case and accordingly the prayer for stay of further proceedings of execution case was rejected. It is this order that is being assailed in this revision by the plaintiff.

( 3 ) MR. Misra appearing for the-petitioner contends that as the petition in question was labelled as one under S. 94 Civil P. C. the learned Subordinate Judge on that ground rejected the plaintiff's application and, therefore, the impugned order is vitiated. If the plaintiff's application for stay of further proceedings in the execution case would have been rejected solely on the ground as contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner, then there would have been no difficulty in interfering with the said order, since it is too well settled that a wrong labelling of an application cannot determine the issue and will not take away the jurisdiction of the court if actually the court has the jurisdiction under any provisions of the Code. But the impugned order, on the other hand, clearly indicates that the court below has considered the application as one under O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. and held that such a prayer could not be granted in the facts and circumstances of the present case since according to the court below the provision under O. 21, R. 29 being of a very extraordinary nature it should be granted only when an extraordinary case is made out. The learned subordinate Judge has observed that since the plaintiff has not made out any extraordinary case, he is not entitled to the relief sought. In this view of the matter, the first contention of Mr. Misra has no substance and is accordingly rejected.

( 4 ) THE next question which Mr. Misra for the plaintiff-petitioner urges is that it is true that O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. is an extraordinary power and, therefore, unless an extraordinary case is made out, the execution case filed under another decree should not be stayed, but according to him the present case is one of those extraordinary cases where the further proceedings in the execution case should have been stayed by the court below. In order to appreciate the correctness of the aforesaid submission, it would be appropriate to examine the provisions contained in O. 21, R. 29, Civil P. C. The said rule is extracted herein below in extenso :-"29. Stay of execution pending suit between decree-holder and judgment-debtor.-where a suit is pending in any Court against the holder of a decree of such Court or of a decree which is being executed by such Court on the part of the person against whom the decree was passed, the Court may, on such terms as to security or otherwise, as it thinks fit, st



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