SupremeToday Landscape Ad
Back
Next
Judicial Analysis Court Copy Headnote Facts Arguments Court observation
Listen Audio Icon Pause Audio Icon
judgment-img

2007 Supreme(All) 2426

[2007(10) ADJ 227]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : M.K. MITTAL, J.
Smt. PREMA DEVI ............Applicant
Versus
STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER ..............Opposite Parties
(Criminal Misc. Application No. 9457 of 1987, decided on 21st September, 2007)

Advocates:
Counsel :
P.N. Tripathi for the Applicant; Arvind Srivastava, A.K. Shukla, A.G.A. for the Opposite Parties.

Headnote:Criminal Procedure Code, 1973—Section 145—Preliminary order—Dropping of proceedings—As civil case was pending between parties—Application for—Rejected by Magistrate—On ground that he had no jurisdiction to review earlier order—In present case applicant is exclusive Bhumidhar of plot in possession—Her name continues to be recorded in revenue records—Mutation made in favour of opposite party on basis of order of Consolidation Officer has already been set aside—Applicant is recorded tenure-holder and is in possession and her title is not under cloud—Hence, Civil Court is competent to decide suit for cancellation of alleged gift-deed—Held, when a civil litigation is pending for the same property—Where question of possession is involved—When parties are in position to approach Civil Court—Parallel proceeding under Section 145 of CrPC permissible—Proceeding in criminal Court is liable to be set aside. [Paras 8, 9, 10 and 11]

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble M.K. Mittal, J.—This application has been filed by Srimali Prema Devi widow of Ram Prasad Dubey under Section 482, Cr.P.C. for quashing the orders dated 7.8.1986, 1.9.1986 and 24.2.1986 passed by S.D.M. Padrauna and the order dated 2.7.1987 passed by Sessions Judge, Deoria and also the proceedings in Criminal Case No. 248/86, under Section 145, Cr.P.C., Rajendra Dubey v. Prema Devi, pending in the Court of S.D.M. Padrauna at Kasia, District Deoria.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the opposite party Rajendra Prasad Dubey filed an application under Section 145, Cr.P.C. and S.D.M. passed the preliminary order on 7.8.1986. The applicant filed an application (Annexure-5) for dropping the proceedings as civil case was pending between the parties. Learned Magistrate by order dated 24.2.1987 rejected the application on the ground that he had no jurisdiction to review the earlier order. Against that order the Criminal Revision No. 121/87 was filed by Smt. Prema Devi in the Court of Sessions Judge which was also rejected by order dated July 2 1987. Feeling aggrieved this application has been filed.

3. The contention of the applicant is that originally her husband Rajendra Prasad Dubey was Bhumidhar of plot No. 209/1.26 half portion and plot No. 197/1.75 pertaining to chak Nos. 31, 209, 174, 197, situate in village Pakhnaha, P.S. Nebuwa Naurangia, Padrauna. Her husband died in 1978 and she inherited these plots and her name was also mutated in the revenue record. However, after the death of her husband Bachha Dubey, father of the opposite party claiming himself to be the real brother of Rajendra Prasad Dubey, moved an application for mutation of his name and in that matter the applicant filed an objection and her claim was accepted by Consolidation Officer. Bachha Dubey did not file any revision or appeal against the order dated 18.4.1984 passed by Consolidation Officer and the same became final. The opposite party managed to obtain a fictitious gift deed allegedly executed by the applicant on 31.8.1985 in the province of Bihar by setting up some fictitious Smt. Prema Devi. When the applicant came to know about it she filed a Civil Suit No. 737/85 in the Court of Munsif Kasia and interim order was passed on 3rd April, 1986 which still holds good. Thereafter, the opposite party No. 2 filed the present application under Section 145, Cr.P.C. contending that he was in possession over the plot in suit on the basis of the gift deed executed by the applicant in favour of his son. On that application the orders were passed as referred above. The case of the applicant is that the application was not filed for review of the earlier order but was filed for dropping the proceeding as civil suit was pending between the parties and the learned Magistrate as well as the learned Sessions Judge fell into error when they rejected the application and the revision.

4. The opposite party filed counter affidavit and contended that the applicant had executed the bakshishnama on 31.8.1985 in the presence of the Registrar and on the basis thereof, the name of the applicant was also recorded in the land revenue record in the consolidation proceedings. According to the opposite party he was in possession over the disputed plots and that the proceedings under Section 145, Cr.P.C. were not liable to be quashed because the gift deed could not be cancelled by the Civil Court. The applicant filed rejoinder affidavit and contended that the alleged bakshish-nama is a forged document and she has filed a suit for its cancellation in Civil Court which is maintainable. She has been in possession throughout over the disputed plot and her name continues to be recorded in the revenue record. The order passed by Consolidation Officer mutating the name of the opposite party on the basis of the forged bakshish-nama was an ex parte order. On the application filed for setting aside the said order, the same has been set aside and is no longer in existence. She co














Click Here to Read the rest of this document

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
SupremeToday Portrait Ad
supreme today icon
logo-black

An indispensable Tool for Legal Professionals, Endorsed by Various High Court and Judicial Officers

Please visit our Training & Support
Center or Contact Us for assistance

qr

Scan Me!

India’s Legal research and Law Firm App, Download now!

For Daily Legal Updates, Join us on :

whatsapp-icon Back to top