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2006 Supreme(All) 3120

[2007(1) ADJ 48]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : A.N. VARMA, J.
RAM ISHWAR @ RAMESHWAR —Petitioner
Versus
LAXMI NARAIN AND ANOTHER ——Respondents
(Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 53099 of 2004, decided on 29th November, 2006)

Advocates appeared:
H.S.N. Tripathi and P.S. Tripathi for the Petitioners; Pramod Kumar Jain, S.C. for the Respondents.

Headnote:Code of Civil Procedure, 1908—Section 115—Revision—Maintainability—Suit for specific performance of contract—Filed by plaintiffs against defendants—During pendency of proceedings, petitioner filed an application for issuance of a Commission—Rejected by trial Court—Revision against—Dismissed by D.J., on ground of maintainability—Hence, writ petition—Held, there was no question of identity of land—Regarding establishment of same, issuance of Commission was not required—Therefore, order rejecting an application for issuance of a Commission does not attach any finality to proceedings—Therefore, no revision lies against said order, which was in shape of an interlocutory order—Hence, by rejection of that application, neither any issue was decided nor any of rights of parties were adjudicated upon—Therefore, such an order does not amount to case decided—And revision against was not maintainable. [Paras 9, 13, 16 and 17]

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble A.N. Varma, J.—The opposite party No. 1, i.e. the Plaintiff before the trial Court, instituted a Suit, being Suit No. 209 of 1986, for specific performance of contract against the petitioners, i.e. Defendants. During the pendency of the proceedings the petitioners preferred an application for issuance of a Commission. The trial Court vide its order dated 1.7.2004 rejected the said application, against which the petitioners approached the District Judge in Revision under Section 115 of C.P.C., who vide its judgment and order dated 15.10.2004 dismissed the same on the ground of maintainability. It is against the said judgment and order that the petitioners have approached this Court through the instant writ petition.

2. I have heard Sri H.S.N. Tripathi, learned Counsel for the petitioners as

well as Sri P.K. Jain, learned Counsel for the opposite party No. 1.

3. Sri Tripathi submitted that the learned Courts below committed a

manifest error in dismissing the Revision on the ground of maintainability. As per his submission the application which was preferred for issuance of Commission was for the purpose to ascertain as to whether or not the bricks which were supplied to the opposite party No. 1, were from the brick kiln of the petitioner and the money which had been paid to them pertained to the cost of the said bricks and not as an advance in respect of the alleged agreement. In support of his case he placed reliance upon (a) JT 2000 (7) SC 379, Shreepat v. Rajendra Prasad and others, (b) JT 2003 (6) SC 465, Surya Dev Rai v. Ram Chander Rai & Ors., (c) AIR 2002 SC 110, Smt. Soni v. District Judge, Allahabad and others, (d) 2003 (3) AWC 2198 (SC), Shiv Shakti Co-operative Housing Society, Nagpur v. Swaraj Developers and others.

4. In opposition Sri P. K. Jain submitted that the order rejecting an application for issuance of Commission is not revisable as it is not a case decided within the meaning of Section 115, C.P.C. As per his submission the learned Court below was perfectly justified in not interfering with the order dated 1.7.2004 as the same neither adjudicated upon an issue, nor decided any rights of the parties. In support of his case he placed reliance upon 1994 (2) ARC 204, Munshi Lal Agarwal and others v. IXth A.D.J. Lucknow and others and 1990 (1) ARC 8, Hajari Lal v. Siya Saran and others. He further submits that in a Suit for specific performance of contract with regard to supply of the bricks can be established by other evidence and not by issuing the Commission and getting it ascertained through Commission.

5. Section 115 of C.P.C., as amended and applicable to State of U.P. reads as follows:

“115. Revision.—The High Court, in cases arising out of original suits or other proceedings (of the value exceeding one lakh rupees or such higher amount not exceeding five lakh rupees as the High Court may from time to time fix, by notification published in the official Gazette including such suits or other proceedings instituted before the date of commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Civil Laws (Amendment) Act, 1991, or as the case may be, the date of commencement of such notification), and the District Court in any other case, including a case arising out of an original suit or other proceedings instituted before such date, may call for the record of any case which has been decided by any Court subordinate to such High Court or District Court, as the case may be, and in which no appeal lies thereto, and if such subordinate Court appears—

(a) to have exercised a jurisdiction not vested in it by law; or

(b) to have failed to exercise a jurisdiction so vested; or

(c) to have acted in the exercise of its jurisdiction illegally or with

material irregularity; the High Court or the District Court, as the case may be, may make such order in the case as it thinks fit.

Provided that in respect of cases arising out of original suits or other proceeding of any valuation, decided by the District Court, the High Court alone shall be






































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