PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
PANKAJ JAIN
Firm Messers National Wollen Mills Through Shri Charanjit Kapoor – Appellant
Versus
Bubber Containers (P) Limited Through Directors – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Pankaj Jain, J. (Oral)
1. Plaintiff is in second appeal.
2. These two instant appeals will dispose off two cross-appeals directed against the same judgment.
3. For convenience, parties are hereinafter referred to by their original positions as in the suit i.e. appellant as plaintiff and respondents as defendants.
4. RSA-1047-2014 is at the behest of the plaintiff and RSA-5927-2015 is at the behest of the defendants.
5. Plaintiff filed a suit for permanent injunction, seeking decree of restraint against the defendants from interfering in his peaceful possession over the industrial plots bearing Nos.16, 17, 24 & 25 situated in Industrial Development Colony near Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. It was claimed that the plots in question, were allotted in favour of the plaintifffirm and the firm is in possession as owners thereof.
6. Suit was resisted by the defendants for denying the ownership of the plaintiff.
7. It was claimed that the property in fact never vested in the partnership firm. The defendants are allottee under the Industries Department, State of Punjab and are thus real owner thereof.
8. On the basis of pleadings, following issues were framed:-
"1) Whether the plain
When the plaintiff's title to the property is in dispute and there is a threat of dispossession, the plaintiff should sue for declaration of title and the consequential relief of injunction.
Where once a suit is held not maintainable, no relief of injunction can be granted.
The law in India accords with the jurisprudential thought as propounded by Salmond, respecting possession even if there is no title to support it. Possession can only be resumed by the true owner in ....
Question of title can be looked into in a suit for injunction unless same is very complicated – A person who is in settled possession cannot be dispossessed except in accordance with law.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that where there is merely an interference with the plaintiff's lawful possession or threat of dispossession, it is sufficient to sue for an injunc....
Suit filed for perpetual injunction by plaintiff, when there is cloud over title is not maintainable.
Lawful possession as a tenant requires proof of rent payment; mere entries in land records are insufficient.
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